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September 25, 1967. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCOMITANTS OF EGO FUNCTIONING IN CREATIVITY. Philip Weissman, M.D.
In a recent study the author suggested that the ego's role in creativity is more active than a controlled regression in the service of the ego and involves the utilization of two specific ego functions. A dissociative or desynthesizing function was postulated as essential to temporary liberation of the established order of the psyche so that newly available drive discharges can be restructured