Albert Rothenberg and Carl Hausman, eds.

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 [...] 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