A parallel is drawn between psycho-analysis and creative activity. The psycho-analytic process is a form of creativity on the part of both analyst and analysand, and it is simultaneously a mode of communication. The similarities between the two are described. In both there is a comparable ego regression and permissiveness of repudiated id derivatives. The primary process becomes more apparent, contradictions are tolerated, and there

is less respect for the reality principle. The utterances and behaviour of the analysand, the analyst's interpretations and reconstruction, and the myths of humanity have a very similar content. Psycho-analysis differs from art in that the former goes beyond art. Art does not aim at curing. It arises out of conflict, not out of neurosis. Psycho-analysis involves conscious awareness as well as experience. In this regard the parallel between the two no longer holds. Psycho-analysis must pass beyond the aesthetic experience and make conscious what was unconscious.