“I contend that if the body suffers during infancy, that will invariably create the precondition to the creative. Since the information flowing into their bodies from the external world is relatively insufficient, the ancient brain of the infant has the cure: creativity. This theory does not dispense with the idea that we are born violent with dark desires. It encapsulates the concept. There has not been one successful creative that did not have violent and dark fantasies or tendencies: it’s a resource pool of creative endeavor, a very, very necessary one. Imagine if Cinderella didn’t have elements of child abuse: Hansel and Gretel found a friendly witch in the woods where they lived happily ever after and didn’t have to put her into a furnace to survive. The story of the rattle ghost, or that of Rumplestiltskin, is one of the darkest tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.”