Dreams. The Relational Link between Nocturnal and Diurnal Creativity

Abstract

Creativity language is that typical of primary processes. In order for such language to generate shared fruits in the domains of science, technology, work, politics and in general decision-making processes, complex translation problems should be faced. This translation is possible thanks not only to technical tools and personality endowments, but also to communication and human relations quality. Knowledge, conscience and affections visions that allow to achieve these conditions are considered by the author pertinent with a full enhancement of reuse practices of environments, spaces and buildings. They highlight the creative nature of human consciousness and the metaphorical nature of knowledge, as well as the need to take care of human relationships in order to valorise the transformative potential of affects, memories and images. Montague Ullman and Ernest Hartmann intend dream and dreaming phenomenology in the terms of a continuity between nocturnal and diurnal states of consciousness. Especially in the light of their contributions, this phenomenology is an ideal experiential and conceptual framework to understand the creativity practice as something oriented to the future, to the full exercise of responsibility and, finally, as characterized by wholeness rather than fragmentation.