Taking Jacques Lacan’s theory as a starting point it is discussed how the subject can become activated during the processes which are involved in reading and writing texts. How is it possible to circumvent the ego’s production of meaning? How can we elicit the subjects speech? What does this mean for our understanding of creativity? Lacans theory can enable and understanding the subjects importunes when considering the creating of meaning. This theory is theory is a complementary theory to Derridas theory of deconstruction and Barthes theory of creating meaning in a literary text. It has been shown that a detail creating breaks and turning points in a text can be of special importance when it comes to widening the ego’s conscious production of knowledge. What happens when the ‘detail’ is made to cover object a ( the object of desire in Lacanian theory)? The desire for knowledge and meaning wants us to know what lies behind the detail. But since the detail does not symbolize anything other than a movement in the text it can not give meaning per se. It does however set creativity and language in motion and can therefore contribute to eliciting the subjects speech. When we discover how this works we can use this practically in pedagogy! The relationship between reading and creativity has it's foundations in the unconscious subject. Details and breaks in any given text will enable us to experience new dimensions in our relationship to the text. An understanding of this process will enable the creation of new methodologies and a different approach to the relationship between reading and creativity than is currently apparent in the classroom.

The relationship between reading and creativity has it's foundations in the unconscious subject. Details and breaks in any given text will enable us to experience new dimensions in our relationship to the text. An understanding of this process will enable the creation of new methodologies and a different approach to the relationship between reading and creativity than is currently apparent in the classroom.