This article is particularly dedicated to Joan Fleming, as she did pioneer research at the Chicago Institute on the effect of parent loss in childhood. It is an expansion of Pollock's previous work on the relationship of psychopathology and the creative process. His observations on the life of the well-known artist, Käthe Kollwitz, further expand our psychoanalytic understanding of creativity. He shows that the intense tragedies of both her life and her mother's life influenced her productivity. For example, two of Kollwitz's siblings died prior to her birth and one died afterward. Her mother was unable to go through a normal mourning process and could