Next Week's Topic: Imagination

Next week's focus will be on imagination for analysts, their trainers, and their educators.

"Imagination involves the synthetic combining of aspects of memories or experiences into a mental construction that differs from past or present perceived reality, and may anticipate future reality. Generally regarded as one of the "higher mental functions," it is not thought to be present in animals." -Encyclopedia of Psychology

"active imagination n. In analytical psychology, a term introduced by Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) in the Tavistock lectures, delivered in London in 1935, to denote a process of allowing fantasies (2) to run free, as if dreaming with open eyes. He had expounded the concept (though not the terminology) earlier (Collected Works, 6, paragraphs 712–14, 723n)." From: A Dictionary of Psychology | Date: 2001 | Author: ANDREW M. COLMAN

Sociological imagination is a sociological term, coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959, describing the process of linking individual experience with social institutions and one's place in history. -Wikipedia

Types of Imagination
Citation: Bartlett, F.C. (1928). 'Types of imagination', Journal of Philosophical Studies 3: 78-85.