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Essay on the Creative Imagination

Essay on the Creative Imagination

by Th. Ribot

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Author
Ribot, Th. (Théodule), 1839-1916
Credits
Produced by Clare Boothby and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Subject
Imagination
Category
Text
eBook-No.
26430
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26430
Release Date
August 25, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber's Note: — ESSAY — ON THE — CREATIVE IMAGINATION — BY
  2. 2.ALBERT H. N. BARON — FELLOW IN CLARK UNIVERSITY
  3. 3.TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
  4. 4.AUTHOR'S PREFACE
  5. 5.ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  6. 6.INTRODUCTION
  7. 7.INTRODUCTION — The Motor Nature of the Constructive Imagination — I — II — FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8.PART ONE — ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGINATION
  9. 9.CHAPTER I — THE INTELLECTUAL FACTOR. — I — II — FOOTNOTES:
  10. 10.CHAPTER II — THE EMOTIONAL FACTOR. — I — II — III — FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11.CHAPTER III — THE UNCONSCIOUS FACTOR — I — II — FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12.CHAPTER IV — THE ORGANIC CONDITIONS OF THE IMAGINATION — I — II — III — FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13.CHAPTER V — THE PRINCIPLE OF UNITY — FOOTNOTES:
  14. 14.SECOND PART — THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMAGINATION.
  15. 15.CHAPTER I — IMAGINATION IN ANIMALS — I — FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16.CHAPTER II — THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION IN THE CHILD — FOOTNOTES:
  17. 17.CHAPTER III — PRIMITIVE MAN AND THE CREATION OF MYTHS — I — II — III — FOOTNOTES:
  18. 18.CHAPTER IV — THE HIGHER FORMS OF INVENTION — I — II — III — IV — V — FOOTNOTES:
  19. 19.CHAPTER V — LAW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMAGINATION — I — II
  20. 20.THIRD PART — THE PRINCIPAL TYPES OF IMAGINATION
  21. 21.PRELIMINARY — FOOTNOTES:
  22. 22.CHAPTER I — THE PLASTIC IMAGINATION — I — II — III — FOOTNOTES:
  23. 23.CHAPTER II — THE DIFFLUENT IMAGINATION — I — II — III — IV — FOOTNOTES:
  24. 24.CHAPTER III. — THE MYSTIC IMAGINATION — I — II — FOOTNOTES:
  25. 25.CHAPTER IV — THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION — II — III — IV — V — FOOTNOTES:
  26. 26.CHAPTER V — THE PRACTICAL AND MECHANICAL IMAGINATION — I — II — 1. General Characters — 2. Special Characters — FOOTNOTES:
  27. 27.CHAPTER VI — THE COMMERCIAL IMAGINATION — I — II — III — FOOTNOTES:
  28. 28.CHAPTER VII — THE UTOPIAN IMAGINATION [139] — I — II — FOOTNOTES:
  29. 29.CONCLUSION.
  30. 30.CONCLUSION — I — The Foundations of the Creative Imagination — II — The Imaginative Type. — FOOTNOTES:
  31. 31.APPENDICES
  32. 32.APPENDIX A — The Various Forms of Inspiration [155] — FOOTNOTES:
  33. 33.APPENDIX B — On the Nature of the Unconscious Factor — FOOTNOTES:
  34. 34.APPENDIX C — Cosmic and Human Imagination [162] — FOOTNOTES:
  35. 35.APPENDIX D — Evidence in Regard to Musical Imagination [165] — FOOTNOTES:
  36. 36.APPENDIX E — The Imaginative Type and Association of Ideas [167] — FOOTNOTES:
  37. 37.INDEX. — Transcriber's Notes:

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