Abstract
Creative critical thinking is a cognitive skill that encompasses the ability to analyze information and experiences objectively, in order to identify the factors that influence a position, behavior, or information and evaluate them. This begins with the ego's ability to self-assess and assimilate information, from recognizing values, positions, standards, beliefs, and the factors that address this information. In addition, Critical thinking is the outcome of creative thinking, contributing to decision-making and problem-solving by allowing the introduction of information as a subject and exploring possible alternatives and their different consequences, beyond one's own personal experience. In this research, we shed light on the development and constructive process of creative thinking and its principles, at the intersection of all the psychological growth outcomes. Focusing on the contributions of prominent psychoanalytic theories, starting from “Sigmund Freud” regarding the nature of the ego-growth and the relationship with the mother (maternal breast) as the first external psychological subject for the child, towards the significance of encoding ability according to “Melanie Klein”, through the continuity of the emotional subject (maternal breast), and the emergence of the transitional psychological space according to “Winnicott”, as a field for creative thinking with its factors and principles in how the ego invests the subject as information and regulates it as a conscious and controlling capacity.
Keywords
Creative thinking growth, Critical thinking, ego, psychological subject, transitional psychological space.