Imagination and Its Pathologies

Imagination and Its Pathologies
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0262162148
ISBN-13 : 9780262162142
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Download or read book Imagination and Its Pathologies written by James Phillips and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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