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Imagination is defined as the capacity to form a mental representation of an absent object, affect, body function, or instinctual drive. It is a process whose products are images, symbols, fantasies, dreams, ideas, thoughts, and concepts, comprising a complex psychic function which is the result of a group of ego
functions and is a specifically human adaptation to reality. It occurs both in primary and secondary process thinking. It is differentiated from the sensorimotor affective immediate response to stimuli of animals and infants. Metapsychological and genetic implications are discussed.