The Multifaceted Nature of Creativity and Its Psychological Foundations

Creativity can’t be defined in one way but can be expressed differently. Creativity involves making things but it also involve mashing up ideas in different ways, it can mean thinking differently about data and finding unique solutions to varied practical problems, it can mean hacking system and tuning in different way, it can be exploring ideas and navigating information, it can mean designing system that empowers the creative work of others, it can mean creating change to the world and may be interaction with people etc.

A person is imaginative but not creative if he has ideas but do not act on them. Creativity is a combinatorial force: it is our ability to tap into our “inner” pool of resources – knowledge, insight, information, inspiration, and all the fragments populating our minds that we have accumulated over the years simply by being present, alive, and awake to the world, and to combine them in extraordinary new ways.

Creating the right working environment is critical for increasing employee productivity. This is based on scientific evidence. According to the study ‘Happiness Works,’ millennials expect to be happy at work and see their jobs as more of a valuable life experience than a paycheck.

The strange thing about collaboration is that it necessitates both individuality and selflessness. Managers must not only encourage team bonding and collaborative work, but also ensure that employees’ individuality is not checked at the door. Many unique ideas originate with a single person but are shaped by a team to become fully formed.

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, personality develops in stages, each of which is characterized by a certain degree of internal mental conflict. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behavior is the result of the interaction of the three parts of the mind: the id, ego and super-ego. This theory is known as Freud’s structural theory of personality, which is strongly focused on the role of unconscious psychological conflicts in shaping behavior and personality.

The Id

The Id is the most primitive of the three structures, is concerned with instant gratification of basic physical needs, and motivations. It works in a completely unconscious (without consciously having to think). For example, if you’re ID walked past by a stranger consuming ice cream, then, most likely, to have this for itself. It doesn’t know, or care, that it would be impolite to accept something that someone else; you are only interested in having that ice cream.

Super-ego

Super-ego is in related to the social principles and moral values which is similar to what a lot of people say it is known as “moral compass”. It develops as the child learns what is good and what is bad in the part of their culture.

If you’re super-ego is passed through the same, or a stranger, he should take out for ice cream, because you knew that it would be rude. However, if you have the id and super-ego are involved, and id be strong enough to overcome your super-ego’s fears, on the ice, but after that, you would most likely feel guilty and ashamed for your actions.

The Ego

In distinction to the instinctual id and the moral superego, and the ego is the rational, pragmatic part of our personality. It is less primitive than the id and is partly conscious and partly unconscious. This is what Freud believed that the self and the goal are to balance the demands of the id and the super-ego, in the practical context of the real thing.

Alfred Adler was the first to explore the development of a comprehensive social, psychodynamic theory of personality. He founded a school of psychology called individual psychology, which focuses on what we need to do in order to compensate for feelings of inferiority.

Adler introduced the concept of the inferiority complex, that is, how a person’s feelings that they don’t matter, and does not conform to the standards of others or of the community. He, too, believed in the importance of social relations, in view of the fact that the child will be considered during the development of the social development, on the site of the sexual phase, described by Freud.

Erik Erikson is best-known for the proposal of the psycho-social theory of development, in which it is assumed that a person’s personality develops over a lifetime, on the basis of social relationships, and a departure from Freud’s biology is focused on the view.

In his psychological theory, Erickson emphasized the social relationships, which is the case in each of the stages of development of the personality, in contrast to Freud, who stresses the need to have sex. Erickson has identified eight stages, each of which is a dispute or a challenge. The development of a healthy personality and a sense of competence are subject to the successful completion of each task.

Source : Human Psychology: Learners Mindset by Dr. Mukta Goyal

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