IMAGINATION
Imagination is a mix of thought and emotion in which thought preponderates. When during emotional development thought becomes more prevalent than emotion, feeling becomes imagination.
Imagination = emotion + thought
Thought preponderates in imagination and is therefore more complex, more abstract than feelings. However, emotionality is the source of artistic creativity.
There's no knowledge to be found in emotionality, only in mentality. Emotionality lends vividness and energy to mental images of thought.
IMAGINATION IS THE MIND’S POWER OF VISUALISATION
A thought can shape a mental image in the mind based on our observations and personal experience. Imagination makes intellectual, artistic, cultural and ethical life possible, because we become able to think more abstract and complex thoughts. In imagination emotion still contributes to thought. Emotionality activates mentality, a process which results in the development of feelings and imagination.
Source of CREATIVITY
Feeling and imagination are the outcome when emotion and thought intermingle in various degrees. Pure emotion (excitement, arousal) per definition lacks thoughts, is mentally blind. There is no knowledge to be found in emotions. Insight resides only in thoughts. The more thought in an emotion preponderates, the more concrete the mental image becomes and imagination unfolds which makes creativity possible.
Abstraction
Imagination is abstract thinking. When mentality develops thoughts become clearer and more complex. The mind can shape more abstract concepts, and not just simple reflections based on concrete everyday life. Thanks to imagination ideologies can be constructed which can be used to formulate a world view in various areas such as politics, religion, science, arts and philosophy.
emotion as motivation
Pure thinking feels cold and dry and we need to feel vitalised to become active. The required vitality is provided by emotions as motivation so that we can develop mentally through emotional experiences. Once intellectual development makes us capable of controlling emotional impulses, the role of emotion as motivation in our lives is fulfilled. Then the intellect takes over and we become indeed more rational.
