Psychology of Imagination

Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University.Ignacio Bresco de Luna, Aalborg University.Sarah H. Awad, Aalborg University.

• Introduction.Part I. Niels Bohr Lecture.Chapter 1. From Fantasy to Imagination: A Cultural History and Moral for Psychology; Carlos Cornejo.Part II. Conceptual and Historical Analyses.Chapter 2. Use Your Imagination: The History of a Higher Mental Function; Luca Tateo.Chapter 3. Reviving the Logic of Aesthetics: Poetry and Music in Cultural Psychology; Sven Hroar Klempe and Olga V. Lehmann Oliveros.Chapter 4. Kant and Goethe? The Imaginative Link Between Sensuality and Concepts; Bo Christensen and Steen Brock.Chapter 5. The Sinnlichkeit of Panoramic Experience; Jaan Valsiner.Part III. Theoretical Approaches and Developments.Chapter 6. Ruins and Memorials: Imagining the Past Through Material Forms; Zack Beckstead.Chapter 7. Fantasy and Imagination: From Psychoanalysis to Cultural Psychology; Tania Zittoun.Chapter 8. Hope as Fantasy: An Existential Phenomenology of Hoping in Light of Parental Illness; Ditte Alexandra Winther-Lindqvist.Chapter 9. From Fantasy and Imagination to Creativity: Towards a ‘Psychology with Soul’ and ‘Psychology with Others’; Vlad Glaveanu.Part IV. The Scientific Imagination in Psychology.Chapter 10. The Dynamics of ‘Necessity’ Shaping Our Imaginative Lives: A Pre-Conceptual Account of Discriminative Word Usage; John Shotter.Chapter 11. Amerindian Psychology: The Cultural Basis for General Knowledge Construction; Danilo Silva Guimarães.Chapter 12. Gaps in Human Knowledge: Highlighting the Whole Beyond Our Conceptual Reach; Lucas Mazur.Chapter 13. Nature Leaves No Gaps: From Scientifically Dissected Phenomena Back to the Whole; Meike Watzlawik.Part V. New Research Horizons.Chapter 14. "We Are Not Free, Admit It... But We Cling onto Tomorrow": Imagination as a Tool for Coping in Disempowering Situations; Sarah H. Awad.Chapter 15. Feeling Myself with Nature: Reflections on Picking Flowers in Japan and Denmark; Rebekka Mai Eckerdal.Chapter 16. Russian Revival of the St. George Myth and Its Imagery: A Study Based on Reconstructive Picture Interpretation and Psychoanalysis; Stefan Hampl and Dominik Mihalits.Part VI. Concluding Response.Chapter 17. Conclusion: The Re-Enchantment of Psychology; Carlos Cornejo.