Now, all this is very significant for our purpose, and interesting indeed. Indeed Lorca, who read and appreciated Jung's writings, saw the spilling of personal and ancestral blood as a metaphor in the quest for suffered identification and affirmation. Creative writing, as the process of self-discovery through transformative education, has been described as a struggle and a birth, processes functionally related to the physiology of a creation through and from blood and inner fluids. Furthermore, many writers and adult learners relate to their work as the nursing of an inner or outer wound, according to the archetype of the wounded healer.
Many writers relate to their art in terms of nursing an inner or outer wound.
A pouring out, then, a bleeding wound, an archetypal work of individuation. By mentioning archetypes, I have already committed myself to presenting a Jungian perspective on the writing process. An archetype, according to Jung, is a psychosomatic concept, a structuring pattern of universal value, arising from the collective unconscious. Bear with me as I indulge in a bit of alchemical language as we explore learning and writing as a creative process. Adult students often remark about a murky initial state of desire and impulse, from which the rational search for intellectual answers originate.