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Psychoanalysis seems to have very little to say about the conditions of inspiration or enthusiasm that lead to extraordinary creativity. It also seems to have very little to say about the conditions of flow or “the zone” that musicians, actors, athletes, and other creative people experience from time to time.

These sets of experiences seem to have been entirely the province of humanistic, new age, or “scientific” psychological thinkers. Why is it that psychoanalysis has nothing to say about these things?

It seems like there's an inherent conflict between being a psychoanalyst and being one's full self in a publicly accessible way.

Yes, it certainly seems common to publish on psychoanalytic matters in relevant scholarly journals and things like that, but if one had a more eccentric, unorthodox, creative side, it seems like it would be problematic to publicly associate oneself with that. Do other analysts feel differently? How do people square this issue?