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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface xi
Introduction: The Creativity Question 3
1. Seminal Accounts
Introduction 27
Inspiration / Plato 31
Creation as Making / Aristotle 33
Genius Gives the Rules / Immanuel Kant 37
Genius As Inherited / Francis Galton 42
Creative Writers and Daydreaming / Sigmund Freud 48
2. Descriptive Accounts
Introduction 55
Creation as Craft / Edgar Allan Poe 57
Fancy and Imagination / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 61
The Role of Hunches in Scientific Thought / Walter Bradford Cannon 63
Stages in the Creative Process / Graham Wallas 69
Creative Thought in Artists / Catherine Patrick 73
Genius and Insanity / Cesare Lombroso 79
Creativity in Self-Actualizing People / Abraham H. Maslow 86
3. Explanations 1: Forms and Scope
Introduction 93
The Teleology of the Creative Act / Brand Blanshard 97
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry / Jacques Maritain 104
Biosociation in Creation / Arthur Koestler 108
Life and Creation / Otto Rank 114
On the Relation of Analytic Psychology to Poetic Art / Carl G. Jung 120
Unconscious Processes in the Artist / Harry B. Lee 127
On Preconscious Mental Processes / Ernst Kris 135
Creation and Neurosis / Lawrence S.Kubie 143
Unconscious Scanning and Dedifferentiation in Artistic Perception / Anton Ehrenzweig 149
Perceptual Modes and Creation / Ernest G. Schachtel 153
Concern for Discovery in the Creative Process / Jacob W. Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 161
Psychology Approaches to Creativity in Science / Anne Roe 165
Architects, Personality Types, and Creativity / Donald W. MacKinnon 175
The Psychology of Creativity / Frank Barron 189
Creativity and Intelligence in Children / Michael A. Wallach and Nathan Kogan 208
Education and Creativity / E. Paul Torrance 217
The Associative Basis of the Creative Process / Sarnoff A. Mednick 227
4. Explanations 2: Special Trends
Introduction 238
Women and Creativity / Ravenna Helson 242
Metaphor and Invention / William J. J. Gordon 250
Creativity and the Bisected Brain / Joseph E. Bogen and Glenda M. Bogen 256
Extrasensory Perception and Creativity / Stanley Krippner and Gardner Murphy 262
A Behavioral Model of Creation / B. F. Skinner 267
A Computer Model Approach to Creativity / Herbert F. Crovitz 273
5. Alternative Approaches
Introduction 280
A Rejection of Determinism / Charles Sanders Peirce 282
Emergent Novelty / C. Lloyd Morgan 288
Creation as Unpredictable / Henri Bergson 291
Toward a Theory of Creativity / Carl R. Rogers 296
On the Creation of Art / Monroe C. Beardsley 305
The Process of Janusian Thinking in Creativity / Albert Rothenberg 311
Intuition and Expression in Art / Benedetto Croce 327
Consciousness and Attention in Art / R. G. Collingwood 334
Creativity and Rationalism / Carl R. Hausman 343
Selected Bibliography 352
