@inbook{1a5dec3a9e114997a4322d0f9777b55f,
title = "The Soul of the Creative Process: A Commentary by a Cannibal",
abstract = "While reading these two chapters (da Silva & Pinheiro, 2022; Nigro & Guimar{\~a}es, 2022) I reached a disconcerting conclusion upon my own identity—I have been a cannibal in psychology for fifty years. Since the beginning of my psychology studies in 1971 I have been—systematically, as instructed by “the scientific literature”— consuming the full richness of the human soul under various disguises of “behavior”, “cognition”, and even—“culture”. Occidental psychology has exiled the richness of the soul by calling it a new name—“self” or “identity”—while musicians of any society or historical time embrace it in their soul-shattering performances.",
author = "Jaan Valsiner",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-11760-2_7",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-11759-6",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "135–140",
booktitle = "A Dialogical Approach to Creativity",
}