Sorry about the late blog post. I’ve found myself a bit overwhelmed over the past week, with some unexplainable headaches that I can’t seem to get rid of. I’m not even sure where to start with this reading. I really like Hughes, despite all of the information that he has packed into such a small number of chapters. I will elaborate on some of the ideas that got me thinking:
Hughes defines ASCs and creativity in a very simplistic way and it makes me laugh because I remember how difficult it was for our class to define it in the very beginning of the course. I always have to remind myself to just simplify, because it really does make life so much better. Creativity means “to bring an idea out of your inner world, into the external reality.” If you think about it, we live a huge amount of our lives in our unconscious world.
On page 13, Hughes talks about self-creation and the development of one’s own individuality in terms of the “creative life.” This is a question that I have been grappling with for a long time, since I had my own experience in states of depression. I was a very creative person in the past, but it seems that since I have been in college, I have strayed further away from my creative life. My ability to express my inner world seems to have been hindered by the demands of my college life (the intellectual life). I wonder how different I would be had I chosen a different path; had I chosen a photography or film school instead of a four-year university. My experiences have led me to believe in Hughes’ idea that the development of creativity is a way to improve one’s quality of life.
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