The Imagination in the Writing Process

In addition to memory and emotional integrity recollected in tranquillity, imagination

is an important vector of connecting the different parts of a narrative or a lyrical piece

to give it unity. Imagination allows the fluidity of thought and the connection between

the different sections and/or the sequence of thought which spurs the images in a poem;

for the image-production depends on the cognitive processes and the storage of ideas

in the cortex. The work of the imagination and the creation of symbols begins in the

Freudian preconscious before the symbols are elaborated on and filtered by our conscious

critique. These are some of the ideas I wanted to share with my readers as I write

and assemble a collection of poems for my new book.