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Creativity: Drawing from the Inner Well

This Jungian Life Podcast

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Genius Is 99% Perspiration and 1% Inspiration

I am struck by how much we're talking about the relationship between ego and the unconscious. There are all kinds of stories about great geniuses like Van Gogh or Nietzsche who were overtaken by the powers of the unconscious. It takes both the Dionysian spirit from the unconscious to do something bold and new and visionary. And the Hephaestian get down there to your blacksmith bellows and just work it. Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, right? But that's sort of the formula we'retalking about.

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