This article represents an interesting first attempt to study the development of the creativity of a historian through a narrative report of the direct observation of the unfolding creative process. This was done through the setting up of more or less regular two-to-three-hour interviews in which the line of thinking of a historian was focused on and the basis on which his ideas had developed was studied. Associations consisted not only of what the historian told the author, but also of the reading material assigned by him to Moraitis. The author's psychoanalytic approach included his awareness that his presence not only allowed him to make observations concerning the creative process, but that it would also affect