Essay on the Creative Imagination
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1906
English
- 00 - Translator's and Author's Prefaces and Introduction - The Motor Nature of the Constructive Imagination
- Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 1 - The Intellectual Factor
- Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 2 - The Emotional Factor
- Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 3 - The Unconscious Factor
- Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Organic Conditions of the Imagination
- Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 5 - The Principle of Unity
- Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 1 - Imagination in Animals
- Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 2 - Imagination in the Child
- Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 3 - Primitive Man and the Creation of Myths
- Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Higher Forms of Invention
- Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 5 - Law of the Development of the Imagination
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Preliminary
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 1 - The Plastic Imagination
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 2 - The Diffluent Imagination
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 3 - The Mystic Imagination
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Scientific Imagination
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 5 - The Practical and Mechanical Imagination
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 6 - The Commercial Imagination
- Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 7- The Utopian Imagination
- Conclusion: I - The foundations of the creative imagination
- Conclusion: II - The imaginative type
- Appendix A - The various forms of inspiration
- Appendix B - On the nature of the unconscious factor
- Appendix C - Cosmic and human imagination
- Appendix D - Evidence in regard to musical imagination
- Appendix E - The imaginative type and association of ideas
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the "spook science" per se, and the imagination, now analyzed by M. Ribot in such a masterly manner, has been one of the most persistent, apparently real, though very indefinite, of psychological spooks. Whereas people have been accustomed to speak of the imagination as an entity sui generis, as a lofty something found only in long-haired, wild-eyed "geniuses," constituting indeed the center of a cult, our author, Prometheus-like, has brought it down from the heavens, and has clearly shown that imagination is a function of mind common to all men in some degree, and that it is shown in as highly developed form in commercial leaders and practical inventors as in the most bizarre of romantic idealists. The only difference is that the manifestation is not the same." - Albert H. N. Baron, in translator's preface to Essai sur l'imagination créatrice
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