Essay on the Creative Imagination


Lu par J. M. Smallheer

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"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 (8 hr 33 min)

Chapitres

00 - Translator's and Author's Prefaces and Introduction - The Motor Nature of … 21:00 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 1 - The Intellectual Factor 23:35 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 2 - The Emotional Factor 29:14 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 3 - The Unconscious Factor 21:43 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Organic Conditions of the… 20:18 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 5 - The Principle of Unity 17:42 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 1 - Imagination in Animals 13:30 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 2 - Imagination in the Chi… 22:55 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 3 - Primitive Man and the … 32:30 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Higher Forms of In… 41:03 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 5 - Law of the Development… 13:32 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Preliminary 6:56 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 1 - The Plastic Imagination 16:47 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 2 - The Diffluent Imaginat… 39:24 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 3 - The Mystic Imagination 22:38 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Scientific Imagina… 28:49 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 5 - The Practical and Mech… 36:26 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 6 - The Commercial Imagina… 27:45 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 7- The Utopian Imagination 16:14 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Conclusion: I - The foundations of the creative imagination 11:49 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Conclusion: II - The imaginative type 18:03 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Appendix A - The various forms of inspiration 3:03 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Appendix B - On the nature of the unconscious factor 10:32 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Appendix C - Cosmic and human imagination 4:25 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Appendix D - Evidence in regard to musical imagination 4:11 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Appendix E - The imaginative type and association of ideas 9:16 Lu par J. M. Smallheer

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