Suffering and Creation: Facts and Fiction

The book is concerned with the organic relationship between suffering and
creation. It is a collection of papers by academic specialists of clinical and
pathological psychology, interested in the psychology of creation, the experience
of tragedy, and the conscious and unconscious motives in the different areas of
innovation. Indeed, the studies analyze the component parts of artistic practice
and transcendence and elevation through creation and innovation. The book also
includes sociological and historical approaches to the philosophical concepts of
art and mythology, and forms of expression that strive to break free from
dominating pressures to achieve the representation of being. Indeed, creation is
an alternative existential experience that rejects ordered existence and
constraining social arrangements.