The concept of imagination : with particular reference to a theory of symbolism

The confusions which have attended the philosophical history of the concept of imagination are notorious. It has, for instance, been used as the complement and as the opposite of grandiose notions of truth, with almost equal ease. As the former, it has had a mysterious importance in esoteric talk about both art and religion; and as the latter, distinguishing imagination and sober empirical observation, it has been a means of attack upon such discourse