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Heuristic Ambiguities in Maslow's "Creativeness"

Heuristic Ambiguities in Maslow's "Creativeness" 257 HEURISTIC AMBIGUITIES IN MASLOW'S "CREATIVENESS" Donald W. Moncrieff In Maslow's study of psychologically healthy individuals he exemplified something of the adventure available to anyone inter- ested in creativeness. He found (1968a, 26) that the clinically ob- served characteristics of healthy, or "self-actualizing" people, in- cluded a "greatly increased creativeness" and this in the context of intensified involvement with the life-world. Reflecting upon these discovered characteristics he modified the meaning "crea- tiveness" had for him. "I first had to change my ideas about creativity," he wrote (1968a, 135), "as soon as I began studying people who were positively healthy, highly evolved and matured, self-actualizing." In the process of changing his ideas he realized that he had been thinking of creativeness in terms of products such as might be expected from a Beethoven, Van Gogh or Milton. He had as- sumed (1968a, 136) that "creativeness was the prerogative solely of certain professionals." But the self-actualizing people he studied proved to be "original, novel, ingenious, unexpected, inventive" in areas ranging from cooking to parenthood. He "just had" to call them creative. He began to see "that a first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting." Such insights involved him http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Brill

Heuristic Ambiguities in Maslow's "Creativeness"

Moncrieff, Donald W.
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology , Volume 2 (2): 257 – Jan 1, 1972
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© 1972 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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257 HEURISTIC AMBIGUITIES IN MASLOW'S "CREATIVENESS" Donald W. Moncrieff In Maslow's study of psychologically healthy individuals he exemplified something of the adventure available to anyone inter- ested in creativeness. He found (1968a, 26) that the clinically ob- served characteristics of healthy, or "self-actualizing" people, in- cluded a "greatly increased creativeness" and this in the context of intensified involvement with the life-world. Reflecting upon these discovered characteristics he modified the meaning "crea- tiveness" had for him. "I first had to change my ideas about creativity," he wrote (1968a, 135), "as soon as I began studying people who were positively healthy, highly evolved and matured, self-actualizing." In the process of changing his ideas he realized that he had been thinking of creativeness in terms of products such as might be expected from a Beethoven, Van Gogh or Milton. He had as- sumed (1968a, 136) that "creativeness was the prerogative solely of certain professionals." But the self-actualizing people he studied proved to be "original, novel, ingenious, unexpected, inventive" in areas ranging from cooking to parenthood. He "just had" to call them creative. He began to see "that a first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting." Such insights involved him

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