"... the correlation of
creativity with introversion and with self-sentiment and superego
standards. For what characterizes a society which is adjusting to complexity is probably an increase in introversion, and certainly an
increase in superego control (possibly, as Freudians assert, at some cost
in terms of neurosis). Unfortunately, prior to the location of extraversion
as a unique second-order factor, psychologists were as loose as the
general public in confusing extraversion with other things. One suspects
that the educational psychologists of the “progressive” movement of the
1920s in England and the corresponding popular view in North and
South America (exclusive of Canada) confused “healthy adjustment”
with “extraversion.” Regardless of whether this impulsive ex via appears
in New York or the western frontier, there is every indication that it is
antipathetic to true creativity, and the fact that it has been held up as a
norm and an ideal in school is not unconnected with the present belated
search for a lost creativity.
Creativeness must come from the individual, but it is the task of
society to produce the climate in which introversion and restraint are
viable styles of life."
Source:
INTELLIGENCE : ITS STRUCTURE, GROWTH AND ACTION
Raymond B. Cattell (1987) p 514-515
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