ef
remarks on the military imagination. 281

CHAPTER VII.

THE UTOPIAN IMAGINATION.

Successive appearances of ideal conceptions.--Creators in
ethics and in the social realm.--Chimerical forms. Social
novelists.--Ch. Fourrier, type of the great
imaginer.--Practical invention--the collective
ideal.--Imaginative regression. 299

CONCLUSION.

I. _The foundations of the creative imagination._

Why man is able to create: two principal
conditions.--"Creative spontaneity," which resolves itself
into needs, tendencies, desires.--Every imaginative creation
has a motor origin.--The spontaneous revival of images.--The
creative imagination reduced to three forms: outlined,
fixed, objectified. Their peculiar characteristics. 313

II. _The imaginative type._

A view of the imaginative life in all its stages.--Reduction
to a psychologic law.--Four stages characterized: 1, by the
_quantity_ of images; 2, by their _quantity and intensity_;
3, by quantity, intensity and duration; 4, by the complete
and permanent systematization of the imaginary
life.--Summary. 320

APPENDICES.

OBSERVATIONS AND DOCUMENTS.

A. The various forms of inspiration. 335

B. On the nature of the unconscious factor. Two
categories--static unconscious, dynamic
unconscious.--Theories as to the nature of the
unconscious.--Objections, criticisms. 338

C. Cosmic and human imagination. 346

D. Evidence in regard to musical imagination. 350

E. The imaginative type and association of ideas. 353

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

THE MOTOR NATURE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVE IMAGINATION

I

It has been often repeated that one of the principal conquests of
contemporary psychology is the fact that it has firmly established the
place and importance of movements; that it has especially through
observation and experiment shown the representation of a movement to be
a movement begun, a movement in the nascent state. Yet those who have
most strenuously insisted on this proposition have hardly gone beyond
the realm of the passive imagination; they have clung to facts of pure
reproduction. My aim is to extend their formula, and to show that it
explains, in large measure at least, the origi