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BARRIGA NAVA, Jackeline. Artistic inspiration from psychology. Revista de Psicologia [online]. 2025, n.33, pp.108-121. ISSN 2223-3032.  https://doi.org/10.53287/vcnh5488nz31a.

The objective of the essay is to study the origin of artistic inspiration from a psychological approach to explore mental mechanisms that lead human beings to express works of art. Different periods, authors and research have been considered: ancient times (Hebrews and Greeks), classical times. (Plato, Aristotle), romantic (John Locke and Edward Young), modern (Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler) and contemporary (Charles Mauron and Lev Vygotsky) and research such as phosphenes, genetic inheritance and channeling. The result is diverse depending on the progress of the studies, initially the artistic inspiration originated through a breath of life, it was related to the muses; They later linked artistic inspiration with gods and had a subversive and cathartic effect; Likewise, the creative process of art exists through genius, association of ideas, fantasy, images and ingenuity; Psychoanalysis qualifies inspiration as a neurotic process, related to racial memory, archetypes, psychological types and has a compensatory value for feelings of inferiority; The contemporary era explains that artistic inspiration is a product of psychocriticism, social environment, personality of the creator, language, self-analysis, imagination and fantasy, artistic inspiration must be taken into account from a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach.

Palabras clave : Origin; Artistic inspiration; Psychology.

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