Unconscious Inner Speech and Literary Creativity

Overview:

How do writers come up with their ideas? The evidence suggests that the unconscious plays an essential role in literary creative processes. After clarifying and explicating the concept of the unconscious, we turn to the question of how creative processes work. Different phases can be subdivided here, of which we will primarily examine the so-called incubation phase, in which no more active thinking takes place. In order to answer the question of how creative ideas arise, I will present the Pandaimonic model, in which semi-autonomous inner parts exchange ideas in the unconscious during the incubation phase, which leads to the genesis of ideas.