This book of readings can be traced to a twofold inception: chance and the convergence of two directed interests. The editors are a psychiatrist and philosopher, both of whom have made distinctive contributions to the perplexing problems of human creativity.

Preface xiIntroduction: The Creativity Question 31. Seminal AccountsIntroduction 27Inspiration / Plato 31Creation as Making / Aristotle 33Genius Gives the Rules / Immanuel Kant 37Genius As Inherited / Francis Galton 42Creative Writers and Daydreaming / Sigmund Freud 482. Descriptive AccountsIntroduction 55Creation as Craft / Edgar Allan Poe 57Fancy and Imagination / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 61The Role of Hunches in Scientific Thought / Walter Bradford Cannon 63Stages in the Creative Process / Graham Wallas 69Creative Thought in Artists / Catherine Patrick 73Genius and Insanity / Cesare Lombroso 79Creativity in Self-Actualizing People / Abraham H. Maslow 863. Explanations 1: Forms and ScopeIntroduction 93The Teleology of the Creative Act / Brand Blanshard 97Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry / Jacques Maritain 104Biosociation in Creation / Arthur Koestler 108Life and Creation / Otto Rank 114On the Relation of Analytic Psychology to Poetic Art / Carl G. Jung 120Unconscious Processes in the Artist / Harry B. Lee 127On Preconscious Mental Processes / Ernst Kris 135Creation and Neurosis / Lawrence S.Kubie 143Unconscious Scanning and Dedifferentiation in Artistic Perception / Anton Ehrenzweig 149Perceptual Modes and Creation / Ernest G. Schachtel 153Concern for Discovery in the Creative Process / Jacob W. Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 161Psychology Approaches to Creativity in Science / Anne Roe 165Architects, Personality Types, and Creativity / Donald W. MacKinnon 175The Psychology of Creativity / Frank Barron 189Creativity and Intelligence in Children / Michael A. Wallach and Nathan Kogan 208Education and Creativity / E. Paul Torrance 217The Associative Basis of the Creative Process / Sarnoff A. Mednick 2274. Explanations 2: Special TrendsIntroduction 238Women and Creativity / Ravenna Helson 242Metaphor and Invention / William J. J. Gordon 250Creativity and the Bisected Brain / Joseph E. Bogen and Glenda M. Bogen 256Extrasensory Perception and Creativity / Stanley Krippner and Gardner Murphy 262A Behavioral Model of Creation / B. F. Skinner 267A Computer Model Approach to Creativity / Herbert F. Crovitz 2735. Alternative ApproachesIntroduction 280A Rejection of Determinism / Charles Sanders Peirce 282Emergent Novelty / C. Lloyd Morgan 288Creation as Unpredictable / Henri Bergson 291Toward a Theory of Creativity / Carl R. Rogers 296On the Creation of Art / Monroe C. Beardsley 305The Process of Janusian Thinking in Creativity / Albert Rothenberg 311Intuition and Expression in Art / Benedetto Croce 327Consciousness and Attention in Art / R. G. Collingwood 334Creativity and Rationalism / Carl R. Hausman 343Selected Bibliography 352