In this episode, Susan Kolodny and I discuss creativity, the difficulties of creative work, and how we can overcome our creative blocks. We also discuss how anxiety shows up in the creative process and how we can begin to make sense of our unconscious blocks.
Susan Kolodny is a poet, writer, and a recently retired psychoanalyst and teacher. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, Preserve and After the Firestorm, as well as a book about creative work called The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition. The Captive Muse, and our conversation, proposes answers to these questions:
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