Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt, and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth--as is the work of Shakespeare. In today's world we are moved by Shakespeare's plays because these themes are brought to life with a richness and creativity that has not dimmed with the passing of time.
Supporting Creativity And Imagination in the Early Years
This book draws on the author's experience of promoting young children's creativity and imagination in a variety of settings over the last twenty years. The settings include home and centre based care and this book draws on the practical experience of adults living and working with children in these settings. The aim of the book is to use real life examples of young children's development and their growing competence to show the richness of their creativity and imagination.
The Write-Brain Workbook: 366 Exercises to Liberate Your Writing
With The Write-Brain Workbook, writers will never have to face a blank page again. This one-of-a-kind guide provides a full year of writing exercises and games designed to get thoughts brewing and the pen moving across the page. It: Provides 366 10-minute exercises to build momentum and turn on the right side of the brain Helps readers generate work by painlessly leading them into new writing every day Stimulates creativity with a stunning 4-colour package and easy-to-approach prompts People of all ages and occupations can benefit from this book as they open up to new realms of creativity.
In the Land of Invented Languages - Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius
Efforts to make language simpler, clearer, less divisive and more truthful have backfired spectacularly, to judge by this delightful tour of linguistic hubris. Linguist Okrent explores some of the themes and shortcomings of 900 years worth of artificial languages. She surveys philosophical languages that order all knowledge into self-evident systems that turn out to be bizarrely idiosyncratic; symbol languages of supposedly crystalline pictographs that are actually bafflingly opaque...
How do creative people think? Do great works of the imagination originate in words or in images? Is there a rational explanation for the sudden appearance of geniuses like Mozart or Einstein? Such questions have fascinated people for centuries; only in recent years, however, has cognitive psychology been able to provide some clues to the mysterious process of creativity. In this revised edition of Notebooks of the Mind, Vera John-Steiner combines imaginative insight with scientific precision to produce a startling account of the human mind working at its highest potential.
