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ERIC Number: EJ532400
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Publication Date: 1996
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Taoistic Psychology of Creativity.
Kuo, You-Yuh
Journal of Creative Behavior, v30 n3 p197-212 Third Quarter 1996
This article reinterprets the philosophy of Taoism and applies it to creativity. Taoistic cognition is described as intuition or personal knowledge. Taoistic creativity is explained as involving incubation, syntectic thinking, and the unification through opposites. Dialectical thinking, Taoistic meditation and intuition, and symbolic thinking are reviewed. (CR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Intuition, Meditation, Motivation, Philosophy, Psychology, Taoism
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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