"The daimonic (unlike the demonic, which is merely destructive) is as much concerned with creativity as with negative reactions. A special characteristic of the daimonic model is that it considers both creativity on one side, and anger and rage on the other side, as coming from the same source. That is, constructiveness and destructiveness have the same source in human personality. The source is simply human potential."
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Rollo May, in Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic : the Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity (1999)
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