Essay on the Creative ImaginationRibot, Th. (Théodule)
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Essay on the Creative Imagination
Ribot, Th. (Théodule)
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Imagination
"I revert to the impossibility of making an addition without a swerve of
imagination, because plastic figures are always ready before the
calculator. The man of imagination is always constructing by means of
plastic images.[169] Life possesses him, intoxicates him, so he never
gets tired."
THE END
FOOTNOTES:
[167] See Conclusion, II, above.
[168] B...... is not an architect.
[169] We see that the speaker is a visualizer.
INDEX.
Absent images, Association of, 94.
Abstraction, 15;
Late appearance of, 146.
Abulics, 11.
Activity, normal end of imagination, 11.
Adaptation of means to end, 264.
Advance plans in commerce, 288.
Adventure, Eras of, 287.
Affective states, Role of, 8.
Alcoholic liquors, 74.
Alembert, d', 87.
Alexander, 138, 142, 143.
Alfieri, 56.
Allen, 150.
Americans, change occupations, 257.
Analogy, 299;
Abuse of, 305;
based on qualitative resemblance, 26;
essential to creative imagination, 25;
not trustworthy in science, 27;
Role of, in primitive life, 125;
Thinking by, 117.
Anatomical conditions, 65.
Anger, 34.
Animal fancy, 97.
Animals, Association fibers or centers, lacking in, 100;
Discoveries of, 98;
Imagination in, 93, 94;
Usefulness of, to man, 274.
Animism, 107, 189;
of primitives, 123.
Anticipations of later inventions, 277.
Apollo, 50.
Apperception, Importance of, 16.
_Apprehensio simplex_, a logical figment, 110.
Arago, 145.
Aristotle, vi, 134, 141.
Art, Indefiniteness of modern, 203;
Realistic, 250;
Various theories of, 46.
Artificial motors, Use of, a late development, 275.
Aryan race, 129.
Association, 22, 23;
Forms of, 196;
Laws of, 23;
of ideas, 59, 353;
of ideas, Criticism of the term, 23;
of ideas, Discovery depends on, 250;
suggests cause, 261.
Associational systems, 67.
Astral influences, 261.
Asyllogistic deduction, 283.
Attention, 86.
Australians, 285.
Automatisms, 71.
Azam, 325.
Bach, 69, 214, 216.
Bacon, Roger, 245, 303 n.
Baillarger, Dr., 324.
Baldwin, 104.
Barter, 286.
Baudelaire, 39, 55.
Beethoven, 52, 71, 148, 218.
Bernard, Claude, 52;
_idee directrice_ of, 250.
Binet, 340.
Bipartite division of the brain, 67.
Bismarck, 271.
Blood circulation, Importance of, 70.
Boehme, Jacob, 335.
Bonnal, 298 n.
Borgia, Lucretia, 139.
Bossuet, 225.
Boulogne, De, 283.
Bourdeau, L., 272.
Brain- development and abstraction, 100;
regions, Development of, 67;
weights, 66.
Bramwell, 343.
Breguet, 277.
Brown-Sequard, 77.
Buddha, Life of, 301.
Buffon, 52, 73.
Byron, 145.
Cabalists, 234.
Cabalistic mysticism, 226.
Cabanis, 78.
Campanella, 303.
Carlyle, 150, 186.
Carpenter, 284, 339.
Carthage, 282.
Categories of images, 16.
Causality, Search for, 260.
Charcot, 6.
Charlemagne, 138.
Chateaubriand, 76.
Chatterton, 145.
Cherubini, 145.
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