“The psychodynamic approach to studying creativity is based on the idea that creativity arises from the tension between conscious reality and unconscious drives (Hadamard, 1945; Poincaré, 1948, Sternberg, 2000, Wallas, 1926; Wertheimer, 1945). The four-step Gestalt model (preparation-incubationillumination-verification) is an example of the use of a psychodynamic approach to studying creativity. It should be noted that the gestalt model has served as kindling for many contemporary problem-solving models (Polya, 1945; Schoenfeld, 1985; Lester, 1985). Early psychodynamic approaches to creativity were used to construct case studies of eminent creators such
as Albert Einstein, but the behaviorists criticized this approach because of the difficulty in measuring proposed theoretical constructs.”