Shame and Creativity:

Julie Daley

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Sep 21, 2019

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Learning to live our Essential Nature through a Very Human Body.

“Léon Wurmser once defined creativity as ‘the heroic transcendence of shame’ (The Mask of Shame pg 291). To the extent that one is the very best at something or that one strives to be the best, one risks alienation from the remainder of humanity. In some cultures, Wurmser pointed out, anyone who dares to rise above the…