“…Werner (1948) also believed that artistic perception and creative thinking could rely on, or have access to, this same syncretic level of cognition (Barten, 1983;Barten & Franklin, 1978). On the creative side, this dedifferentiation would allow for a flexibility of perception and thought (see, also, Ehrenzweig, 1953, for a somewhat similar view), as categories dissolve, become entwined, and in general interact, much as an interactionist approach to metaphor and metaphoric thinking would advocate (Glicksohn & Goodblatt, 1993). In Werner's (1957Werner's ( /1978a) terms, One might argue that in creative reorganization, psychological regression involves two kinds of operations: One is the dedifferentiation (dissolution) of existing schematized or automatized behavior patterns; the other consists in the activation of primitive levels of behavior from which undifferentiated (little-formulated) phenomena emerge.…”