Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
	Chapter 1: Chasing imagination
		Defining imagination
		Imagination and depth psychology
		The great divide
		Model agnosticism
		Overview
	Chapter 2: Measuring the imaginal
		Scientific method
		Science and scientism
		Perils of reduction and promise of complexity
		Phenomenology and neuroscience
		Facing Proteus
Part II: Imagination as phenomenon
	Chapter 3: A brief history of imagination: From prehistory to the Renaissance
		Phantasies of Ancient Greece
			The platonic imagination
			The Aristotelian imagination
			The Greek legacy
		The Judeo-Christianimagination: from הַרַע to Imaginatio
		The Renaissance
			Precursors to the Renaissance imagination
			Proteus in the gardens of the World Soul
	Chapter 4: Imagination in modernity: From enlightenment to disenchantment
		The ascendance of reason
		The synthetic imagination of Kant
		The creative imagination of the Romantics
			Roots of Romanticism
			The Romantic imagination
			Imagination and reason at the abyss
		The road to disenchantment: imagination in the twentieth century
			From imagination to the imaginary
			Deconstructing imagination
			Signs of life
	Chapter 5: Imaginal psychology
		The birth of depth psychology: from Nietzsche to Freud
		The Jungian imagination
			From philosophy to psychology
			Image as bridge to the unknown
			Archetypes: collective primordial images
			Active imagination
		James Hillman: advocate for the imaginal
			Henry Corbin and the Mundus imaginalis
			The deliteralization of the psyche
			Imagination of the soul
			A personified cosmos
			Conclusion
Part III: The neuroscience of imagination
	Chapter 6: Sense and image
		Sensation, perception, imagination
			The visual system
			Multisensory processing
			Is perception imagery?
		Mental images
		Mental images and meaning
			The evolutionary case for meaningful mental images
			Image and emotion
			Imagery, meaning, and memory
		From virtual reality to Anima Mundi
	Chapter 7: Time and story
		The narrative dimension
			The evolution of story
			Theory of Mind: agency in a storied world
			Self-stories, individual development, and healing
		Imagining memory
			The neurobiology of memory
			Mental time travel
			Convergence: the default mode network
		Story tellers
	Chapter 8: Creativity and dream
		Creativity
			Creative production
			The creative unconscious
			Free association revisited
			Incubation and insight
		Dream
			Continuity in dreaming and waking consciousness
			Physiological origins of dreams
			Dreaming and meaning
			Lucidity: the paradox of dreaming awake
		Concluding remarks on the creative unconscious
Part IV: The imagination of neuroscience
	Chapter 9: Imagination in science
		Types of imagination in science
		Creative imagination in scientific method
			The art of making models
		The ontological imagination
			Foregrounding the imaginal context
			Ontological creativity
	Chapter 10: Neuroscience as story and myth
		Science and the bridge of fiction
		Science fictions in public discourse
		The human face of neuroscience
			Myths of scientific purity and power
			Social considerations in the production of scientific knowledge
		Myths and metaphors of the brain
		Myths and mysteries of consciousness
	Chapter 11: Conclusion: Facing Proteus
		Seeking synthesis
		Concluding remarks in defense of science
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Index