ABSTRACT
Henri Bergson, in Creative Evolution and The Creative Mind, distinguished intuition from intellect as the main vehicle of the creative process in mind. Bergson stands apart and alone in the study of creativity, for he placed it in a much broader context, the theory of life and of mind in general. Creativity as a concern of psychology has generated a large professional literature based on theory and research. To the genius of Bergson it owes clarification of its relationship to philosophy as well as perspective on its own empirical program. Psychophysics, psychometrics applied to intellect, psychobiography: by these means, psychology gained new methods and found new problems. A brief look at that history may serve to define for us the relevance of Bergson's distinctions to new psychology of creativity. Gustav Fechner was perhaps first in the line of scientific geniuses who carried to equal intensity in their own psyches the split between the world of matter and world of mind.
