Imagination
Imagination is considered "a power of the mind," "a creative faculty of the mind," "the mind" itself when in use, and a "process" of the mind used for thinking, scheming, contriving, remembering [see memory , (2)] creating, fantasizing, and forming opinion. The term imagination comes from the latin verb imaginari meaning "to picture oneself." This root definition of the term indicates the self-reflexive property of imagination, emphasizing the imagination as a private sphere. As a medium, imagination is a world where thought and images are nested in the mind to "form a mental concept of what is not actually present to the senses." In the sense of the word as a process, imagination is a form of mediation between what is considered "externalized" reality [see reality , (2) ]and internalized man (with regard to Manovich and Lacan). The term is considered "often with the implication that the (mental) ...
