The Psychology of the Imagination

by Sartre,Jean-Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415119542
• ISBN10: 0415119545
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1972-05-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Specifically designed as an essay in phenomenology The Psychology of Imaginationwas Sartre's first extended examination of such concepts as nothingness and freedom which were to figure so prominently in his later philosophical works.

Table of Contents

The Intentional Structure of the Image
Introduction
The Certain
The method	p. 1
First characteristic: the image is a consciousness	p. 2
Second characteristic: the phenomenon of quasi-observation	p. 5
Third characteristic: the imaginative consciousness posits its object as nothingness	p. 10
Fourth characteristic: spontaneity	p. 13
Image, portrait, caricature	p. 17
The sign and the portrait	p. 21
From sign to image: the consciousness of imitations	p. 26
From sign to image: schematic drawings	p. 32
Faces in the fire, spots on walls, rocks in human form	p. 39
Hypnagogic images, scenes and persons seen in coffee-grounds, in a crystal ball	p. 41
From the portrait to the mental image	p. 57
The mental image	p. 59
The Probable
Knowledge	p. 63
Affectivity	p. 75
Movements	p. 82
The role of the word in the mental image	p. 94
How the thing appears in the mental image	p. 98
The Role of the Image in Mental Life
The symbol	p. 109
Symbolic schemata and illustrations of thought	p. 121
Image and thought	p. 128
Image and perception	p. 138
The Imaginary Life
The unreal object	p. 141
The unreal and behaviour	p. 155
Pathology of the imagination	p. 171
The dream	p. 186
Conclusion
Consciousness and imagination	p. 207
The work of art	p. 219
References	p. 227
Index	p. 231
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