Essay on the Creative Imagination
Author: first_name:  Théodule-Armand
last_name: Ribot
Language: English
Year: 1906

"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the "spook science" per se, and the imagination, now analyzed by M. Ribot in such a masterly manner, has been one of the most persistent, apparently real, though very indefinite, of psychological spooks. Whereas people have been accustomed to speak of the imagination as an entity <i>sui generis</i>, as a