ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues that creative imagination may reduce mean-inglessness and mitigate the situation of "the self alone." The manifold of problems being tackled under the rubric of "creativity" are largely the problems of general psychology and philosophy, especially as those problems were conceived and stated in the period from 1880 to 1910. The psychology of creativity is related quite fundamentally to several of the enduring problems of classical philosopsy. The creative act is courage in realizing one's situation, and the reward for it, when there is a reward, is company. As a problem for philosophers, the condition of human solitariness is considered as an assumption and given a name: the problem of solipsism, Solipsism, from solus, alone and ipse, self is the assumption that the self knows and can know nothing but its own modifications and states.
