Imagination and Its Pathologies

Imagination and Its Pathologies PDF Author: James Phillips
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262162142
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
Madness has been viewed as a faulty mix of ideas by a deranged and violent imagination. This study shows that the relation of the imagination to pathological phenomena is as diverse and complex as the human condition. The imagination has the power not only to react to the world but to recreate it.