Invention And The Unconscious

by Joseph-Marie Montmasson

Overview

This is Volume X in a series of twenty-one in a collection on Cognitive Psychology. Originally published in 1931, in this book, M. Montmasson is concerned to demonstrate a fact of the first importance, easily overlooked. The fact is this, that human inventions in the widest sense of the word, are products of the unconscious.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415209656
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/24/1999
Series:	International Library of Psychology
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction FIRST PART Domain of the Unconscious in the Sciences I. The Unconscious in Knowledge in General II. The Unconscious in Mathematical Invention III. The Unconscious and Invention in the Physical Sciences IV. The Unconscious and Invention in the Biological Sciences V. The Unconscious and Invention in the Moral Sciences VI. The Unconscious and Technical Invention VII. Comparison of the General Results SECOND PART Genesis of the Invention under the influence of the Unconscious I. Theory of Integral Knowledge II. The Role and Insufficiency of the Automatic Unconscious III. The Necessity for the Dynamic Unconscious in Invention IV. The Role of the Aesthetic Unconscious in Invention V. Synthesis of the Work accomplished by the Unconscious in Scientific Invention