Primary and secondary imagination
- 1. Group Name : The Seizers Captain: Tamanna Taher (Roll : 881) Members : 1. Sanjida Afroz Tithi (885) 2. Rifath Afrin Anaholy Easha (2285) 3. Ruhina Akhter (2517) 4. Shubhasish Roy (901)
- 3. Umm! What is Imagination? I can’t understand it !! It seems hard !
- 4. Imagination is called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations in the mind. …
- 5. Well, now it seems easy…A general definition will help a lot to read the concept of Imagination according to Coleridge..!
- 6. “The imagination then, I consider either as primary or secondary. The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, And as a repetition in the find mind of the infinite I Am.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge; “Biographia Literaria”
- 9. Primary imagination is merely the power of receiving impression of the external world through the senses. It is an involuntary act of the mind, the human mind receives impressions and sensations from the outside world. It is in this way that clear and coherent perception becomes possible.
- 11. Now what is the secondary imagination??!!
- 12. Secondary Imagination is more active and conscious. It requires an effort to the will and conscious effort. It selects the raw material and reshapes and models.
- 13. “The Secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co- existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with The primary in the kind of its and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create; or where this Process is rendered impossible, yet Still, at all even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.”
- 14. Secondary Imagination reshapes the data. Thus it is a “a shaping and modifying power.” By receiving and categorizing data it creates something new. For example : water and sugar.
- 15. Secondary imagination is a creative force. It recreates the experiences that primary imagination supplies to it. According to dissolves and diffuses in order to re-create.
- 17. Fancy is employed for the task of “passive” and “mechanical”. Fancy is concerned with the mechanical operations of the mind.
- 18. “Fancy has no other counters to Play with but fixities and definites. The fancy is no other than a mode of Memory emancipated from the order Of time and space; and blended, and modified by that empirical phenomenon on of the will which we express by the word choice. But equally with the ordinary memory it must receive all its materials ready made from the law Of association.”
- 19. One can use fancy as power to create memory mosaic or colleges. It rearranges what we experience. It associates data to create something new.
- 20. Fancy creates an new entity by associating datas. It emancipates from the order of time and space. So fancy is capable to provide a new entity.
- 21. The cartoon series of Aladdin and his magic lamp is also an imagination of the maker. It is one kind of secondary imagination. The director gathered the data and thus reshaped it.