The Internal Collaborator: Creative Method as Transitional Subject
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Published online on January 07, 2026
Abstract
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Creative artists often report that their ideas come from a source that feels external. Psychoanalyst Michel Émile de M’Uzan calls this phenomenon a transitional subject, the unconscious projection of a person that sits at the boundary of “me” and “not me.”...
Creative artists often report that their ideas come from a source that feels external. Psychoanalyst Michel Émile de M’Uzan calls this phenomenon a transitional subject, the unconscious projection of a person that sits at the boundary of “me” and “not me.”...