Now for my second entry in the creativity series of blogs.
In This blog I will be exploring creativity in a psychological and cognitive sense. How the brain works and many people’s theories and my own take on what motivates me and others.

Sigmund Freud described creativity by suggesting that it arises as a result of frustrated desires for fame, fortune, and love, with the energy that was previously tied up in frustration and emotional tension in the neurosis being sublimated into creative activity. Basically creativity comes from built up tension in the brain from the lack of the persons desires. I personally think that Freud talked bolocks; I mean this comes from the man who claims that all children have a sexual desire from their mother and a fear of castration from their father. In my opinion he was either very perverse or a few tools short of a full shed. But what he suggests here about where creativity comes from is entirely plausible although its will take some convincing.

“Do Creativity and intelligence come hand in hand?”
In my opinion most certainly not, I do not think a person needs to be clever in order to be creative. Every single person in this world is creative in some aspect or another. An autistic child who may have the intelligence of someone half his age but the drawing skills of a hardened veteran. Take a look at this video of Stephen Wiltshire a suffer of autism but with the most outstanding abilities.


In a psychological sense there have been many case studies searching for a link between creativity and intelligence, A very popular model is what has come to be known as "the threshold hypothesis", proposed by Ellis Paul Torrance, which holds that a high degree of intelligence appears to be a necessary but not sufficient condition for high creativity. This means that, in a general sample, there will be a positive correlation between creativity and intelligence, but this correlation will not be found if only a sample of the most highly intelligent people are assessed.

I am going to end this entry here because well I did enough psychology at A-level and this stuff bores me so I’d rather look at more interesting approaches and ideas to Creativity but may well return here if a get stuck for content.