The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of creativity and imagination in which Koestler explains that humans are most creative when rational thought is abandoned during dreams and trances. Koestler affirms that all creatures have the capacity for creative activity, frequently suppressed by the automatic routines of thought and behavior that dominate their lives.

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  • The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of creativity and imagination in which Koestler explains that humans are most creative when rational thought is abandoned during dreams and trances. Koestler affirms that all creatures have the capacity for creative activity, frequently suppressed by the automatic routines of thought and behavior that dominate their lives. Koestler's basic idea is that the creative act is a "bisociation" which happens, if two (or more) apparently incompatible frames of thought ("matrices") are brought together by an ingenious mind. In jokes and humour, these conceptual systems are reversed, in the arts and in ritual, they are juxtaposed, in science, they are fused into a new larger synthesis. This corresponds to a "self-assertive" tendency in humour and a "self-transcending" tendency in art, while in science both tendencies are balanced.
  • Der göttliche Funke. Der schöpferische Akt in Kunst und Wissenschaft ist ein 1966 erschienenes philosophisch-psychologisches Sachbuch von Arthur Koestler, in dem er versucht, die Vorgänge zu erklären, die der Kreativität in Witz und Humor, in der Wissenschaft und in der Kunst zugrunde liegen. Die vom Autor bearbeitete deutsche Fassung enthält nicht das „Zweite Buch“ des englischen 1964 erschienenen Originals The Act of Creation; die dortigen Theorien über „innerhalb der gesamten organischen Hierarchie“ (S. 9) wirksame Grundprinzipien gingen in überarbeiteter Form in sein nächstes Buch Das Gespenst in der Maschine ein.
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  • The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of creativity and imagination in which Koestler explains that humans are most creative when rational thought is abandoned during dreams and trances. Koestler affirms that all creatures have the capacity for creative activity, frequently suppressed by the automatic routines of thought and behavior that dominate their lives.
  • Der göttliche Funke. Der schöpferische Akt in Kunst und Wissenschaft ist ein 1966 erschienenes philosophisch-psychologisches Sachbuch von Arthur Koestler, in dem er versucht, die Vorgänge zu erklären, die der Kreativität in Witz und Humor, in der Wissenschaft und in der Kunst zugrunde liegen.
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  • The Act of Creation
  • Der göttliche Funke
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