{"id":2661,"date":"2021-09-18T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/09\/innate-drive\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T15:04:41","slug":"innate-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/09\/innate-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Innate Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again we learn of artists confessing an inability to ignore the internal and insistent creative impulse driving their artistic expression. Carl Jung aptly describes this phenomenon:<\/p>\n<p><em>Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b026bdef1afaf200c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3075\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b026bdef1afaf200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b026bdef1afaf200c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3075\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again we learn of artists confessing an inability to ignore the internal and insistent creative impulse driving their artistic expression. Carl Jung aptly describes this phenomenon: Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}