AboutImagination

Last edit December 21, 2014
Writers on Imagination

Arieti (1976)

Imagination and Amorphous Cognition - Endocepts:

  • cognitions without representation
  • knowning without images
  • the primitive organization of past experiences, perceptions, memory traces, ...
  • private and unshared

Conceptual Cognition:

  • Creativity in Wit
  • Poetry and the Aesthetic Process: - Metaphors
  • Imagery
  • Society, Culture and Creativity

Gareth Morgan

Imaginization - on the WEB at http://www.imaginiz.com/

Unlocking creativity by mobilizing new images and metaphors:

  • Imaginization is about improving our abilities to see and understand situations in new ways.
  • Imaginization is about finding new ways of organizing.
  • Imaginization is about the creation of shared understandings.
  • Imaginization is about personal empowerment.
  • Imaginization is about developing capacities for continuous self-organization.


Bibliography

Arieti (1976): Silvano Arieti, Creativity - the Magic Synthesis, Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, New York, ISBN 0-01444-5, 1976

Birch (1996): Paul Birch and Brian Clegg, Imagination Engineering, Pitman Publishing, ISBN 0 273 62064 9, 1996.

Furlong (1961), E.J. Furlong, Imagination, Muirhead Library of Philosophy, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1961.

Morgan (1993): Gareth Morgan, Imaginization - the art of creative management, SAGE Publications, ISBN 0-8039-5299-6, 1993.