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  • Preface  xi
    Introduction: The Creativity Question  3
    1. Seminal Accounts  
    Introduction  27
    Inspiration / Plato  31
    Creation as Making / Aristotle  33
    Genius Gives the Rules / Immanuel Kant  37
    Genius As Inherited / Francis Galton  42
    Creative Writers and Daydreaming / Sigmund Freud  48
    2. Descriptive Accounts  
    Introduction  55
    Creation as Craft / Edgar Allan Poe  57
    Fancy and Imagination / Samuel Taylor Coleridge  61
    The Role of Hunches in Scientific Thought / Walter Bradford Cannon  63
    Stages in the Creative Process / Graham Wallas  69
    Creative Thought in Artists / Catherine Patrick  73
    Genius and Insanity / Cesare Lombroso  79
    Creativity in Self-Actualizing People / Abraham H. Maslow  86
    3. Explanations 1: Forms and Scope  
    Introduction  93
    The Teleology of the Creative Act / Brand Blanshard  97
    Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry / Jacques Maritain  104
    Biosociation in Creation / Arthur Koestler  108
    Life and Creation / Otto Rank  114
    On the Relation of Analytic Psychology to Poetic Art / Carl G. Jung  120
    Unconscious Processes in the Artist / Harry B. Lee  127
    On Preconscious Mental Processes / Ernst Kris  135
    Creation and Neurosis / Lawrence S.Kubie  143
    Unconscious Scanning and Dedifferentiation in Artistic Perception / Anton Ehrenzweig  149
    Perceptual Modes and Creation / Ernest G. Schachtel  153
    Concern for Discovery in the Creative Process / Jacob W. Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi  161
    Psychology Approaches to Creativity in Science / Anne Roe  165
    Architects, Personality Types, and Creativity / Donald W. MacKinnon  175
    The Psychology of Creativity / Frank Barron  189
    Creativity and Intelligence in Children / Michael A. Wallach and Nathan Kogan  208
    Education and Creativity / E. Paul Torrance  217
    The Associative Basis of the Creative Process / Sarnoff A. Mednick  227
    4. Explanations 2: Special Trends  
    Introduction  238
    Women and Creativity / Ravenna Helson  242
    Metaphor and Invention / William J. J. Gordon  250
    Creativity and the Bisected Brain / Joseph E. Bogen and Glenda M. Bogen  256
    Extrasensory Perception and Creativity / Stanley Krippner and Gardner Murphy  262
    A Behavioral Model of Creation / B. F. Skinner  267
    A Computer Model Approach to Creativity / Herbert F. Crovitz  273
    5. Alternative Approaches  
    Introduction  280
    A Rejection of Determinism / Charles Sanders Peirce  282
    Emergent Novelty / C. Lloyd Morgan  288
    Creation as Unpredictable / Henri Bergson  291
    Toward a Theory of Creativity / Carl R. Rogers  296
    On the Creation of Art / Monroe C. Beardsley  305
    The Process of Janusian Thinking in Creativity / Albert Rothenberg  311
    Intuition and Expression in Art / Benedetto Croce  327
    Consciousness and Attention in Art / R. G. Collingwood  334
    Creativity and Rationalism / Carl R. Hausman  343
    Selected Bibliography  352

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    Albert Rothenberg, a psychiatrist, and Carl R. Hausman, a philosopher, have prepared a truly comprehensive interdisciplinary book of readings on creativity. This group of selections from the works of writers in psychiatry, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, and education brings together, for the first time, major theoretical works, outstanding empirical findings, and discussions of the definition and nature of creativity.
    The organization of The Creativity Question is unique: it illustrates the various approaches and basic assumptions underlying studies of creativity throughout the course of history up to the present time. The main body of selections appears under the categories of descriptions, attempts at explanation, and alternate approaches. As specific orientations to creativity can be traced to particular initiating thinkers and investigators, there is a special chapter on seminal accounts containing selections from the works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Galton, and Freud. Another chapter includes recent illustrations of special types of exploratory trends: creativity of women, brain research, synectics, extrasensory perception, behaviorism, and creativity computer programming. This organization highlights the tension between strictly scientific accounts and alternative approaches offering new ways of understanding. The editors have provided for the books as a whole and for each chapter explanation and discussion of the basic issues raised by the various approaches to creativity.

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