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After outlining multiple theories of creativity, this chapter describes the movement toward integration itself as an act of creativity. The gathering of the bodily self’s disparate lifeworld meanings is a form of creativity. In this light, the relative resolution of the dialectical tension between polar meanings experienced in everyday life, such as presence versus absence or being versus nothingness, is itself a creative (playful) work of synthesis.
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Hannush, M.J. (2021). Creativity: The Capacity for Creativity and Creative Living. In: Markers of Psychosocial Maturation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74315-4_7
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