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Creativity as a Miniature of a Boundary Situation
Petar Radoev Dimkov * petardimkov@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0003-4368-9015 * ResearcherID: C-2915-2019
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Philosophy, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA
Open Journal for Studies in Philosophy, 2019, 3(2), 37-44 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsp.0302.02037d
Online Published Date: 29 October 2019
LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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KEY WORDS: Karl Jaspers, boundary situation, miniature, creativity, stress, third thought process, philosophy, psychology.
ABSTRACT:
Recently, I have introduced the notion of a miniature of a boundary situation (Dimkov, 2018). It views the process of creativity as a miniature of a boundary situation, in which the ideas of Karl Jaspers and Sigmund Freud are combined. Thus, the miniature represents a problem-solving situation via the means of a regression in the name of the ego or a third thought process (Dimkov, 2016). In such situations of creativity, one is forging a new worldview or a Weltanschauung by discovering new knowledge. The third thought process, as well as the miniature of the boundary situation, can be experienced only inward and subjectively by personal immersion in the situation, they lie outside the scope of objectification and they receive meaning only from a concrete personality and a concrete miniature situation, but their product is objective, it is a creative product. In this sense, heuristic methods do fail in boundary situations. Moderate stress is inherent to the boundary situation, the phenomenon of flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 2013) and its miniature, in which quantitative accumulations lead to qualitative changes, laying on a single continuum. Such a continuum is constructed nowadays in phenomenological psychiatry. In conclusion, the creative process viewed as moderate stress represents an intellectualizing of the miniature of a boundary situation or a sublimation.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Petar Radoev Dimkov, Faculty of Philosophy, South-West University “Neofit Rislki”, 66 Ivan Mihaylov Street, Blagoevgrad 2700 BULGARIA. E-mail: petardimkov@gmail.com.
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