Essay on the Creative Imagination

By Théodule-Armand Ribot · Running time 8:33:20 · *Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology

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"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the "spook science" per se, and the imagination, now analyzed by M. Ribot in such a masterly manner, has been one of the most persistent, apparently real, though very indefinite, of psychological spooks. Whereas people have been accustomed to speak of the imagination as an entity sui generis , as a lofty something found only in long-haired, wild-eyed "geniuses," constituting indeed the center of a cult

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