Failures and vomiting

While writing a novel, a song, a screenplay or a thesis, Anxiety and doubt often assail those who attempt to create. Once the work is produced, it is the imposter syndrome that then arises, convincing the creator that his or her creation is bad, redundant or outright plagiarized, that he or she has no place among his or her peers, or that all his subsequent productions will be of lesser quality than his peak. has passed. How can we understand the doubt inherent in any creative act in environments increasingly focused on models of success, competition and neoliberal productivity? What place for trial and error, digressions, wasting time, but also refusal to adhere to the concept itself of success? Against the tyranny of success, the authors of this collective place, with Samuel Beckett, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others, on the side of those who know that failure can be creative.