Creative Imagination STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERATURE

First published in 1999. This is Volume II of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. Written in 1929, using creative writing and poetic imagination as a focus this text looks at the psychology of literature and the variational factor. Both literary appreciation and creation suggest fascinating problems that might be solved in the laboratory.

Part 1; Chapter 1 THE VARIATIONAL FACTOR IN THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY; Part 2 THE IMAGINAL WORLD; Chapter 2 THE INNER WORLD; Chapter 3 ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGERY; Chapter 4 LOCALIZATION AND PROJECTION OF IMAGES; Chapter 5 ON SEEING ONE'S SELF; Chapter 6 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IMAGES; Part 3 THE WORLD OF WORDS; Chapter 7 THE INNER SPEECH; Chapter 8 AUDIBLE THOUGHT; Chapter 9 THE WORD-IN-ITSELF; Part 4 THE METHOD OF STYLE; Chapter 10 THE METHOD OF STYLE; Chapter 11 THE POETRY OF COLOUR; Chapter 12 THE CONCORDANCE OF THE SENSES; Chapter 13 POET AND PSYCHOLOGIST; Part 5 ATTITUDES, PSYCHIC PATTERNS, THE LOGIC OF THE EMOTIONS; Chapter 14 ATTITUDES AND MENTAL PATTERNS; Chapter 15 AN INTROSPECTIVE SNAPSHOT, Wilson O.Clough; Chapter 16 RHYTHMS; Chapter 17 THE LOGIC OF THE EMOTIONS; Chapter 18 THE METAPHORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS; Chapter 19 THE CARTOONING CONSCIOUSNESS; Part 6 SPRINGS OF THE IMAGINATION; Chapter 20 THE UNCONSCIOUS; Chapter 21 THE SPRINGS OF THE IMAGINATION; Chapter 22 THE POET PSYCHOLOGIZES; Part 7 LITERARY SUBJECTIVITY AND OBJECTIVITY; Chapter 23 A FEW WORDS ON EMPATHY; Chapter 24 SELF AND ART; Chapter 25 LITERARY SELF-PROJECTION; Chapter 26 HOW LITERATURE ACHIEVES AESTHETIC OBJECTIVITY; Chapter 27 THREE STORIES; Chapter 28 HYPNOTIC ART; Chapter 29 INTROVERTED ARTINDEX;

June E Downey