Rollo May and creativity

Rollo May writes some insightful words about the importance of form in the creative act. In his book The Courage to Create May points to the dialectical relationship between form and subjective content. Form shapes your suggestive experiences without making them less subjective. The external nature of the pre-determined form allows free exploration that the lack of form would not:

Our discussion of form demonstrates something else — that the object you see is a product both of your subjectivity and external reality. The form is born out of a dialectical relation between my brain (which is subjective, in me) and the object that I see external to me (which is objective). As Immanuel Kant insisted, we not only know the world, but the world at the same time conforms to our ways of knowing. Incidentally, note the word conform &mdash the world forms itself "with," it takes on our forms. (p. 119)

May, Rollo (1994). The Courage to Create, WW Norton.

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