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Her approach is primarily psychoanalytic, but she also uses philosophical analysis, literary criticism, history of science, and biography.  Psychoanalysts and psychologists will find the book not only a new approach to creativity, but a new way of doing applied psychoanalysis: there have been many psychobiographies but no effort has been made to survey them and draw conclusions. Philosophers will discover a major contribution to the theory of character, one of the most neglected subfields of philosophy. 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