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Imagination is revelatory of truth in the subjectivity of meaning [and) in the interpretative process of seeing… (p. 35).
[A]rt like psychoanalysis evokes the experience of self (p. 62).
Familiar with the realms of art, language, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, Lois Oppenheim visits them all to illuminate and gather evidence in support of her thesis that the role of imagination and the creative processes in art and psychoanalysis resemble each other.
It is not easy reading.
It is impossible to report here the details of all the evidence, which begins with a case of anosognosia—intended to show that an internal image seen with the “mind's eye” can be more real to a person than that which is seen with the “physical” eye or that which may be seen from the outside—and extends to the phenomenology of Husserl and other philosophers,