About Imagination

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.

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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.