does not refuse to face his/her own emotions, anxieties, and fantasies is better able to face, without fear and anxiety, impulses and imagery arising from more primitive and unconscious layers of his/her personality is peculiarly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be (which means, of course, that he/she has achieved a certain measure of detatchment from what actually is) has a capacity to tolerate internal conflict, a willingness to suspend judgment is not uncomfortable in the presence of unanswered questions or unresolved differences does not find it difficult to give expression to opposite sides of his/her nature at the same time has not been trapped by the rigidities that immobilize less creative people Home / Of General Interest |