Chapter 11

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, Rôle 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;Rôle 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,245,303n.Baillarger, Dr.,324.Baldwin,104.Barter,286.Baudelaire,39,55.Beethoven,52,71,148,218.Bernard, Claude,52;idée directriceof,250.Binet,340.Bipartite division of the brain,67.Bismarck,271.Blood circulation, Importance of,70.Boehme, Jacob,335.Bonnal,298n.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-Séquard,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.Child, Adult misinterpretation of,104;Creative imagination in the,103ff.;Exaggeration of his intelligence,115;Oscillation of belief and doubt in the,113;Stages of development,105.Child-study, Difficulties of,104.Chopin,52,215.Chorea,101.Cid, The,140.Classes of discoverers,249.Classification,181.Coleridge,37.Colored hearing,38.Columbus, Christopher,89.Commerce, Combative element in,295.Commercial imagination, Conditions of,281;development due to increasing substitution,287;development, Stages of,285.Common factor in comparison,40.Complementary scientists,246.Complete images impossible,16.Comte,146.Condillac,243.Confucius,300.Confusion of impressions,18.Conjecture, beginning of science,245.Conscious imagination, a special case,58.Constellation,59,126.Constitutions by philosophers,309.Contiguity and resemblance,24.Contrapuntists,214.Contrast, Association by,40.Cooperation,309;of intellect and feeling,43.Copernicus,246.Counter-world,304.Creation hindered by complete redintegration,22;in physiological inhibition,6;Motor basis of,258;Physiological and imaginative,76;versus repetition,5.Creative imagination, a growth,9;Composite character of,12;conditioned by knowledge,173;either esthetic or practical,44;implies feeling,32;Neglect of, by writers on psychology,vii;Reasons for,313.Creative instinct, non-existent,42.Crisis, not essential,58.Critical stage of investigation,252.Cromwell,144.Cumulative inventions,272.Curiosity,99;of primitive man,45,131.Cuvier,183.Daedalus,269.Dante,205.Darwin,117,346.Dauriac,350.Deduction, Process of,283.Deffant, Madame du,48.Deities, Coalescence of,200;Momentary,199;Multiplicity of Roman,125.Delboef,342.DeQuincy,55.Descartes,73,294.Determinism, Neglect of, by idealists,303;of art,278;of invention,264.Dewey, John,132n.Dialectic, Hegelian,254.Diffluent imagination,196ff.Dii minores,269.Disinterestedness of the artist,35.Dissociation,15,268;by concomitant variations,21;of series,19.Double personality,325.Dreams,38;Emotional persistence of,324.Drugs, Effect of,55;Use of, as excitants,70.Dualism of Fourier,306.Dürer,145.Egypt,135.Egyptian conception of causality,260.Emotion, and sensation,38;material for imagination,33;presupposes unsatisfied needs,32;Realization of,80.Emotional abstraction,196;factor,31ff.Empedocles,136.Epic, Rise of the,138.Essenes,307.Esthetic imagination,contrasted to mechanical,264;Fixity of,264.Ethics, Living and dead,302.Euclid,244,245.Eureka, Moment of,247,302.Evolution of commerce, Law's statement of,294.Exact knowledge requisite in commerce,289.Expansion of self,314.Experience requisite for literary invention,146.External factors,21.Facts and general ideas,252.Faith,112;-cure,6;highest in semi-science,241;Rôle of,7.Fancy,346;in animals,97;Source of,260.Fear,34.Fenelon,303.Féré,325,340.Fiduciary money,286.Fixed ideas,88,89.Flechsig,67,68,100,103.Flournoy,38,344.Forel,96.Fouillée,193.Fourier,304.French, not strong in imagination,193;Revolution,151.Fresnel,145.Fromentin,17.Froschammer,75,346.Fuegians,285.Gauss,69,183.Gautier, Théophile,55,189,190.Gavarni,187.Generic image,18.Genius, and brain structure,68;depends on subliminal imagination,57;exceptional,149;No common measure of,143.Geniuses, of judgment,142;of mastery over men, and matter,142.Gilman,219n.Gnostics,234.Goethe,29,149,150,216.Gold, Curative powers of,261.Goncourt,74.Goya,39,206.Greece,282.Greek republics,151.Grétry,73.Grillparzer,85,336.Groos,35,47,99,227.Guericke, Otto de,276.Habits,22.Hamilton,19,58,60.Handel,145.Hanseatic League,287.Harrington,303.Hartmann,254,346.Haüy,247.Haydn,145.Hegel,254,346.Heine,306.Hellenic imagination, anthropomorphic,202.Helmholtz,20,87,142.Henry IV,139.Hephæstos,269.Hercules,137.Hero,270.Herodotus,260.Hesiod,130.Hindoo imagination, symbolic,202.Hindoos,128.Hodgson,35.Höffding,41.Hoffman,39,206.Homo duplex,43.Homonomy,120.Howe,60n.Huber,96.Hugo, Victor,188,189,216,229;Animism in,189.Human force, beginning of invention,273.Hume,111.Huyghens,270.Hyperæmia,70.Hyperesthesia, Temporary,74.Hypermnesia,54.Hypothesis,251;Progressive,244.Icarus,269.Idea and emotion, Equivalence of,80.Ideal modified in practice,306.Idealistic conceptions,300.Idealization, Process of,38.Illusion,107;and legend,137;Conscious, of mystic,228.Illusions, valuable to scientist,251.Image, Modification of,18,291.Images,80;abbreviations of reality,232;Categories of,16;Concrete,222;provoked,188;sketched type,81;Symbolic,222;Visual, provoked by music,217.Imagination, and abulia,11;and foresight,284;anthropocentric,10;basis of the cosmic process,75;Commercial,281;complete in animals,95;condensed in common objects,276;Conditions of,44;Development of,167ff.;Diffluent,196ff.;Esthetic,264;fixed form,318;in animals,93;in experimentation,248;in primitive man,118;Mechanical and technical,257;Motives of different sorts of,251;Musical,212ff.,350;Mystic,221ff.;Mystical, different from religious,231;not opposed to the useful,263;Numerical,207ff.;Periods of development of,144;Plastic,184ff.;Poetical,267;Practical,256ff.;present in all activities,viii;Quality of, same in many lives,265;Scientific,236ff.;sketched form,316;substitute for reason,29;Varieties of,180.Imaginative type,320.Imitation, through pleasure,98.Imitative music,214.Impersonality,52,86.Incomplete images,18.Incubation, Periods of,278.Individual variations,179.Individuality of genius,149.Inductive reasoning,132.Infantile insanity,101.Inhibition by representation,6.Initial moment of discovery,276.Inspiration,50,85;and intoxication,55;Characteristic of,57;characterized by suddenness and impersonality,51;resembles somnambulism,56;Subjective feeling of, untrustworthy,59.Instinct,75;answer to specific needs,42;Creative,313;


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