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The writing of the well-known French psychologist Theodule Ribot is a fascinating journey in the world of creativity and on the processes that generate it.
The first three chapters of the book present the psychological factors that have an important contribution in the formation of creative imagination. According to the author, these factors are the unconsciousness, the emotions and the intellect of the individual.
However, they alone are not enough, as the organism also has to be “prepared” for the complex process that has the generation of creative imagination as a result. In the chapter dedicated to this subject, Ribot also discusses the problem of the conditions the individuals may suffer from, and the positive or negative influences these illnesses may have on creativity.
After this introductory part, the author makes a presentation of how imagination evolved over time, and what the ways in which this quality helped mankind to progress were. One of the most interesting chapters is dedicated to the presentation of creative manifestations in animals.
According to one of Ribot’s theories, the so-called “animal imagination” is based on the use of motor functions. From this point of view, he considers that the animals are very similar to children, who start to express their creativity by inventing different games as a pretext to exercise new motions.
People, he says, were intrigued, fascinated and sometimes scared by the natural phenomena surrounding them, so they tried to explain all these strange manifestations by inventing mythical creatures.
The third and last part is dedicated to different forms of creativity. Mechanical and practical imagination, Commercial imagination, Scientific imagination and Utopian imagination are among the manifestations of creative imagination he presents.
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