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Essay on the Creative Imagination

by Théodule Ribot

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  1. 00 - Translator's and Author's Prefaces and Introduction - The Motor Nature of the Constructive Imagination

    21:00

  2. Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 1 - The Intellectual Factor

    23:35

  3. Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 2 - The Emotional Factor

    29:14

  4. Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 3 - The Unconscious Factor

    21:43

  5. Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Organic Conditions of the Imagination

    20:18

  6. Part 1: Analysis of the Imagination - Chapter 5 - The Principle of Unity

    17:42

  7. Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 1 - Imagination in Animals

    13:30

  8. Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 2 - Imagination in the Child

    22:55

  9. Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 3 - Primitive Man and the Creation of Myths

    32:30

  10. Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Higher Forms of Invention

    41:03

  11. Part 2: The Development of the Imagination - Chapter 5 - Law of the Development of the Imagination

    13:32

  12. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Preliminary

    6:56

  13. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 1 - The Plastic Imagination

    16:47

  14. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 2 - The Diffluent Imagination

    39:24

  15. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 3 - The Mystic Imagination

    22:38

  16. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 4 - The Scientific Imagination

    28:49

  17. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 5 - The Practical and Mechanical Imagination

    36:26

  18. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 6 - The Commercial Imagination

    27:45

  19. Part 3: The Principal Types of Imagination - Chapter 7- The Utopian Imagination

    16:14

  20. Conclusion: I - The foundations of the creative imagination

    11:49

  21. Conclusion: II - The imaginative type

    18:03

  22. Appendix A - The various forms of inspiration

    3:03

  23. Appendix B - On the nature of the unconscious factor

    10:32

  24. Appendix C - Cosmic and human imagination

    4:25

  25. Appendix D - Evidence in regard to musical imagination

    4:11

  26. Appendix E - The imaginative type and association of ideas

    9:16

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Ribot treats imagination as an active, constructive power rather than a decorative extra to reason. Writing as one of the founders of scientific psychology in France, he breaks the creative process into three parts: an intellectual factor (thinking by analogy and the association of images), an emotional factor (feeling as the real motor of invention), and the unconscious or organic conditions that underlie both. He also traces how the faculty develops in childhood, matures, and eventually declines with age. From there he follows creative imagination across its many fields, including mechanical invention, science, myth and religion, the fine arts, commerce, and even the abstractions of mathematics and utopian thought. First published in French in 1900, this is an early and systematic attempt to explain creativity in psychological terms rather than mystical ones.

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Théodule Ribot

Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839–1916) was a French psychologist widely regarded as a founder of experimental and scientific psychology in France.

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Pages
286
Language
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