On the temporality of creative insight: a psychological and phenomenological perspective

Frontiers in Psychology

Diego Cosmelli¹ 

关键词: creativity;    insight;    flow of experience;    temporality;    socio-cultural approach;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01184

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Research into creative insight has had a strong emphasis on the psychological processes underlying problem-solving situations as a standard model for the empirical study of this phenomenon. Although this model has produced significant advances in our scientific understanding of the nature of insight, we believe that a full comprehension of insight requires complementing cognitive and neuroscientific studies with a descriptive, first-person, phenomenological approach into how creative insight is experienced. Here we propose to take such first-person perspective while paying special attention to the temporal aspects of this experience. When this first-person perspective is taken into account, a dynamic past–future interplay can be identified at the core of the experience of creative insight, a structure that is compatible with both biological and biographical evidences. We believe this approach could complement and help bring together biological and psychological perspectives. Furthermore, we argue that because of its spontaneous but recurrent nature, creative insight could represent a relevant target for the phenomenological investigation of the flow of experience itself.

【 授权许可】

CC BY