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Creative Imagination and Dream

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The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 38))

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A deepened analysis of the creative process in man discovers the necessary link between creative imagination and dream. But we can never deny the intervention of two other elements — play and chance. These three dimensions of creative imagination make up its production mechanism. Such peculiar “mechanics”, however, are not contrary to the inner freedom arising spontaneously in the spirit of every human creator, no matter if he is an artist, an inventor or a common man, provided he manages to transcribe what is aesthetic to the field of life.

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  1. El sumo creador, in Obras reunidas ( Madrid: Aguilar, 1971 ), p. 34.

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  2. Ibid., p. 40.

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  3. Ibid., pp. 40–41.

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  4. Diccionario de las Religiones by Paul Poupard, Barcelona: Herder (1987); original: “Dictionnaire des Religions” ( Paris: PUF, 1985 ).

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  5. El sumo creador, op. cit., p. 39.

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  6. Ibid.

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  7. Ibid., p. 47.

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  8. Ibid., p. 48.

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  9. Ibid.

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  10. Ibid., p. 49. ‘1 Ibid., p. 50.

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  11. Zambrano uses the Spanish verb “desentraiiarse” in its double meaning: to come out of the bowels and also to be deciphered or understood.

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  12. Ibid., p. 51.

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  13. Ibid., p.21.

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  14. Spanish translation (Madrid: Aguilar, 1977 ), p. 74. Original: Das Prinzip Hoffnung ( Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1959 ).

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  15. Op. cit., p. 74.

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  16. Ibid., p. 86.

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  17. Ibid., p. 83.

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  18. Ibid., p. 86.

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  1. Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Carmen Balzer

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  1. The World Phenomenology Institute, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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Balzer, C. (1992). Creative Imagination and Dream. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness. Analecta Husserliana, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3296-3_23

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