CREATIVITY AND PRIMARY PROCESS: SAMPLE VARIATIONS

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The present paper reports a study of some relationships between the expression and control of primary process in the Rorschach test on the one hand quality of response to four tests of imagination (TAT, Drawing, Brick Uses and Barron-Welsh) on the other. The sample used (a group of 50 unemploysd actors) was markedly different from samples used (undergraduates ) in an earlier, parallel, study (14). The results, in contrast to the earlier ones, showed no clear relationships between the primary process variables and quality of created productions. Sample differences in the handling of primary process, and their implications for relations between primary process and creative quality, were explored. The basic conclusion was that specifics of the sample and the task must be studied to clarify the broadly stated relationship between regression in the service of the ego and creativity.

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