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  • Chapter 3 - Unconscious Origins of the Creative Trance

  • Tobi Zausner
  • Book:
    The Creative Trance
    Published online:
    02 June 2022
    Print publication:
    09 June 2022, pp 37-48

  • Summary

    We live in a multiplicity of personal worlds, all connected through the power of our unconscious mind and its capacity for trance. This vast unconscious, far larger than conscious awareness, appears to initiate all our movements. The cognitive unconscious, with its perceptual-cognitive abilities, automated motor skills, and implicit memory, facilitates creative expression while clinically, our unconscious emotions, internal conflicts, and repressed desires drive the inspiration and passion of a creative trance. Relinquishing conscious control in the creative process can be a type of artistic projective identification. As the visual artist Joan Mitchell says, “the painting tells me what to do.” Unlike the slow sequential thinking of the conscious mind, the unconscious is a parallel processor quickly integrating multiple variables to bring depth and complexity into the creative process. It carries out multipart repeated behaviors that become automatic fluid expertise, as in the violinist no longer concentrating on finger positions and the archer instinctually positioning a bow.

  • Chapter 33 - Society and Intelligence

  • from Part VII - Intelligence and Society
  • Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Oklahoma State University, Scott Barry Kaufman, New York University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    30 May 2011, pp 666-682

  • Summary

    This chapter presents evidence that mechanisms relating to the cognitive unconscious: mental structures, processes, and states that can influence experience, thought, and actions outside phenomenal awareness and voluntary control make an important contribution to intelligent behavior. There have been some recent studies that look at individual differences in the cognitive unconscious. The chapter focuses on individual differences and reviews recent empirical work on relations among the cognitive processes underlying psychometric intelligence and the cognitive processes underlying the cognitive unconscious, attempting to bridge two major research programs that, until recently, have traveled on separate but parallel paths. The dual-process theory of human intelligence aims to integrate modern dual-process theories of cognition with research on intelligence. By fostering collaborations across the various areas of psychology and related disciplines, and incorporating dual-process theory into thinking, one should be able to come to a fuller, more complete understanding of human intelligence.