The Creativity Question

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