ideological risk-taking often prevents the homosexual

from looking for the truly novel and original aspects of life and art and from being half as creative in practice as they potentially and theoretically are.

HOMO SEXUAL DISTURBANCES

The true invert, and the least creative of the subjects tested, Dr. Ellis described as being "too disorganized and unobjective to focus adequately on devising inventivo and original solutions to difficult artistic or scientific problems."

He went on to point out that fixed homosexuals and inverts in our country are usually so blamed, persecuted and partially excommunicated from normal social life that they acquire, in addition to their original fears, hostilities, and self-hatrod, a secondary disturbance as result of society's disapproval. The two disturbances combine to koop them absorbed in their own problems diverting time and energy which might otherwise be devoted to creativity.

Dr. Ellis suggested homosexuality as the "easier and less responsible mode of life" and that individuals thus involved lack the drive for study, self-discipline, practice and hard work necessary for creative achievement.

"Many of them, therefore, who have considerable potential creativeness never actually realize their own potentialities, but end up by being desporately dilettantish, pseudointellectual and bored with themselves," he said.

Dr. Ellis did not digress into the specific techniques used to test creativity or the validity of such testing. An article which he is preparing for a professional journal will probably cover these technical but crucial details.

--Meredith Grey

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