Institutional Group on Addiction Research, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella u. 46, Budapest, Hungary.
Subst Use Misuse. 2011;46(13):1613-8. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2011.598207. Epub 2011 Aug 23.
The creative process contains both conscious and unconscious work. Therefore, artists have to face their unconscious processes and work with emotional material that is difficult to keep under control in the course of artistic creation. Bringing these contents of consciousness to the surface needs special sensitivity and special control functions while working with them. Considering these mechanisms, psychoactive substance can serve a double function in the case of artists. On the one hand, chemical substances may enhance the artists' sensitivity. On the other hand, they can help moderate the hypersensitivity and repress extreme emotions and burdensome contents of consciousness. The authors posit how the use of opiates could have influenced the life and creative work of Edgar Allan Poe and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
创作过程既包含有意识的工作，也包含无意识的工作。因此，艺术家必须面对他们的无意识过程，并处理在艺术创作过程中难以控制的情感材料。在处理这些意识内容时，需要特殊的敏感性和特殊的控制功能。考虑到这些机制，在艺术家的情况下，精神活性物质可以起到双重作用。一方面，化学物质可以增强艺术家的敏感性。另一方面，它们可以帮助调节过度敏感，抑制极端情绪和沉重的意识内容。作者提出了阿图尔·叔本华的作品《作为意志和表象的世界》如何影响了艺术家们的生活和创作。
