Pasche questions the current tendency to degrade artistic creativity by considering it a symptom. He sees this as a reductive tendency, abandoning the uniqueness of artistic efforts in favor of the view that such productions are on the level of any other human striving. For Pasche, there are many contemporary reductive tendencies: structuralist, political, and psychoanalytic. This demythification of creative genius is simply a particular case of the negation of values in general. In contrast, he holds that the psychoanalytic approach to art reveals the limitations of applied analysis. Artistic activity is not a symptom, whatever the analogies one might find between the genesis of art and the manifestations of hysteria or delusions. One would look in vain for the essence of a work of art in the unconscious intrigue brought to light by analysts.