Invention And The Unconscious

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction FIRST PART Domain of the Unconscious in the Sciences I. The Unconscious in Knowledge in General II. The Unconscious in Mathematical Invention III. The Unconscious and Invention in the Physical Sciences IV. The Unconscious and Invention in the Biological Sciences V. The Unconscious and Invention in the Moral Sciences VI. The Unconscious and Technical Invention VII. Comparison of the General Results SECOND PART Genesis of the Invention under the influence of the Unconscious I. Theory of Integral Knowledge II. The Role and Insufficiency of the Automatic Unconscious III. The Necessity for the Dynamic Unconscious in Invention IV. The Role of the Aesthetic Unconscious in Invention V. Synthesis of the Work accomplished by the Unconscious in Scientific Invention

Joseph-Marie Montmasson