"But despite the significance of the creative man for his time, he is far from always achieving direct and immediate influence, not to mention recognition by his contemporaries. And this discre- pancy, which in no way argues against the creative individual's essential function for the community, inevitably compels him to preserve, and indeed to fight for, his autonomy over against the collectivity. Thus the objective as well
as the subjective situation we have stressed throws the creative man back on himself. His resulting aloofness from his environment and his fellowmen can easily be misinterpreted as narcissism."
---Erich Neumann,
Art and the Creative Unconscious 
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