ABSTRACT

Definition and Classification.—The term Imagery or Images is often restricted to feelings of things as not present. A more useful meaning and one that prevails in recent books on psychology, is feelings of things, qualities and conditions of all sorts as not present. In this sense of the word there may be an image to correspond to every sensation, percept, impulse or emotion. There may be images of fatigue, fear, lonesomeness and tickling, as well as of faces or tunes. The most frequent images are however of sights, sounds and movements.