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The Psychology of Imagination History, Theory and New Research Horizons

:	Wagoner, Brady; Bresco de Luna, Ignacio; Awad, Sarah H.
:	The Psychology of Imagination History, Theory and New Research Horizons
:	IAP - Information Age Publishing
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This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here?and?now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities. To do this we use social?cultural means (e.g. language, stories, art, images, etc.) to conceive of imaginary scenarios, some of which may become real.

Imagination is involved in every situation of our lives, though to different degrees. Sometimes this process can lead to concrete products (e.g., artistic works) that can be picked up and used by others for the purposes of their imagining. Imagination is not seen here as an isolated cognitive faculty but as the means by which people anticipate and constructively move towards an indeterminate future. It is in this process of living forward with the help of imagination that novelty appears and social change becomes possible.

This book offers a conceptual history of imagination, an array of theoretical approaches, imagination’s use in psychologist’s thinking and a number of new research areas. Its aim is to offer a re?enchantment of the concept of imagination and the discipline of psychology more generally.

	Front Cover	1
	The Psychology of Imagination	2
	History, Theory, and New Research Horizons	2
	A Volume in Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology	2
	Series Editors:	2
	Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University Nandita Chaudhary, University of Delhi Pernille Hviid, University of Copenhagen	2
	CONTENTS	6
	PART I: NIELS BOHR LECTURE	6
	1. From Fantasy to Imagination: A Cultural History and Moral for Psychology	6
	PART II: CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSES	6
	2. Use Your Imagination: The History of a Higher Mental Function	6
	3. Reviving the Logic of Aesthetics: Poetry and Music in Cultural Psychology	6
	4. Kant and Goethe? The Connection Between Sensuality and Concepts	6
	5. The Sinnlichkeit of Panoramic Experience	6
	PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND DEVELOPMENTS	7
	6. Ruins and Memorials: Imagining the Past Through Material Forms	7
	7. Fantasy and Imagination: From Psychoanalysis to Cultural Psychology	7
	8. Hope as Fantasy: An Existential Phenomenology of Hoping in Light of Parental Illness	7
	9. From Fantasy and Imagination to Creativity: Toward a “Psychology With Soul” and “Psychology With Others”	7
	PART IV: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN PSYCHOLOGY	7
	10. The Dynamics of “Necessity” Shaping Our Imaginative Lives: A Preconceptual Account of Discriminative Word Usage	7
	11. Amerindian Psychology: The Cultural Basis for General Knowledge Construction	7
	12. Gaps in Human Knowledge: Highlighting the Whole Beyond Our Conceptual Reach	7
	13. Nature Leaves No Gaps: From Scientifically Dissected Phenomena Back to the Whole	7
	PART V: NEW RESEARCH HORIZONS	7
	14. “We Are Not Free, Admit It … But We Cling Onto Tomorrow”: Imagination as a Tool for Coping in Disempowering Situations	7
	15. Feeling Myself With Nature: Reflections on Picking Flowers in Japan and Denmark	8
	16. Russian Revival of the St. George Myth and Its Imagery: A Study Based on Reconstructive Picture Interpretation and Psychoanalysis	8
	PART VI: CONCLUDING RESPONSE	8
	17. Conclusion: The Reenchantment of Psychology	8
	Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology	3
	The Psychology of Imagination	4
	History, Theory, and New Research Horizons	4
	Edited by	4
	Brady Wagoner, Ignacio Brescó de Luna, and Sarah H. Awad Aalborg University	4
	Information Age Publishing, Inc.	4
	Introduction	10
	Brady Wagoner, Ignacio Brescó, and Sarah H. Awad	10
	References	13
	Table 1.1. Yellow-Blue Polarity and Their Corresponding Sensorial-Moral Effects	24
	Figure 1.1. Goethe’s color wheel, with associated symbolic qualities, after his own drawing (1809).	26
	Part I	14
	NIELS BOHR LECTURE	14
	CHAPTER 1	16
	From Fantasy to Imagination	16
	Carlos Cornejo	16
	Goethe’s Science	18
	Goethe’s Theory of Colors	23
	Fantasy in Goethe	26
	Mystical-Theological Background	30
	Fantasy in Vico’s Thought	36
	Fantasy in Kant	39
	Fantasy at the Dawn of the New Psychology	42
	Scientific Psychology and an Irony of History	45
	Conclusion	49
	Acknowledgments	53
	NOTES	53
	References	55
	PART II	58
	Conceptual and historical analyses	58
	CHAPTER 2	60
	Use Your Imagination	60
	Luca Tateo	60
	What Do We Mean By Imagination?	60
	History of Imagination: The Origins	62
	The Renewed Interest in Imagination Since the Renaissance	66
	Elementism Versus Segmentationism	72
	Imagination and Rationality	73
	Metonymic Constitution of Reality	74
	Imagination and Intersubjectivity	75
	Conclusion: A Possible Definition of Imagination	76
	NOTE	77
	References	78
	CHAPTER 3	80
	Reviving the Logic of Aesthetics	80
	Sven Hroar Klempe and Olga V. Lehmann-Oliveros	80
	Bottom-Up and Top-Down Perspectives on Aesthetics: Reconciling Sensation and Cognition	81
	Schematism and Top-Down Approaches to Aesthetics	82
	The Ambivalence of Sensation and Bottom-Up Perspectives on Aesthetics	83
	A Path Toward Existence: Being and Becoming Through Aesthetics	86
	Poetry and Science	88
	The “Aestheticological” Dimension of Human Being	89
	Conclusion	91
	NOTE	92
	References	92
	CHAPTER 4	96
	Kant and Goethe	96
	Bo A. Christensen and Steen Brock	96
	Goethe and Kant, According to Cornejo	97
	Another Kant I	102
	Another Kant II	104
	Harré and Models	108
	Conclusion	112
	NOTES	112
	References	113
	CHAPTER 5	116
	The Sinnlichkeit of Panoramic Experience	116
	Jaan Valsiner	116
	The Panoramic Nature of Human Experience	117
	Panoramas: The Whole of a View	119
	Theory of Pleromatization and Schematization	120
	Romantic Roots of Psychology	121
	From Gestalt Principles to Ganzheit Negotiations