Research Catalog

Title

Metapsychology of the creative process : continuous novelty as the ground of creative advance / Jason W. Brown.

Author

Brown, Jason W.

Publication

• Exeter : Imprint Academic, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

ix, 200 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• Creative ability
• Motivation (Psychology)
• Creativity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1. Animal Behavior and Human Mind -- 2. Creativity as a Continuum -- 3. Gradations -- ch. 2 Preliminaries to a Theory of the Creative Process -- 1. Novelty and Sensibility -- 2. Iteration and Deviation -- ch. 3 Causation: A Problematic Theory -- ch. 4 Process Theory -- 1. The Contrast with Causation -- 2. Note on Evolution -- 3. Summary -- 4. Transition and Novelty -- ch. 5 Microgenesis and Process Philosophy -- 1. Synthesis and Specification -- 2. On Active and Passive -- 3. Potential -- 4. Concrescence and Microgenesis -- 5. Perishing -- 6. Creativity as a Philosophical Problem -- ch. 6 Novelty -- 1. A Note on Emergence -- 2. On Coherence and Partition -- 3. Novelty and Change -- ch. 7 Creativity -- 1. Categories and Attributes -- 2. Love and Creation -- 3. Objections to the Analogy -- 4. Idealization and Authenticity -- 5. Relation to Novelty -- 6. One or Many Forms of Creativity -- 7. Creation Out of What? -- 8. Creativity and Serial Order -- ch. 8 Introspection and Imagery -- 1. Dream and Waking Consciousness -- ch. 9 Time, Dream and Creativity -- 1. Dream and the Unconscious -- 2. Order and Simultaneity in Dream -- 3. Time and Motility -- ch. 10 Self and Creativity -- 1. Creation and Subjectivity -- 2. Habit, Tradition and Composition -- 3. Ideation and Formulation -- ch. 11 Feeling -- 1. The Sublime -- 2. Decline.

ISBN

• 184540923X
• 9781845409234

OCLC

966394344

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library