The document summarizes key concepts related to imagination according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It defines primary imagination as the unconscious ability to receive impressions from the senses, and secondary imagination as the conscious, creative ability to reshape and recombine these impressions into new forms. Secondary imagination dissolves and diffuses primary impressions in order to recreate them through conscious effort of will. Fancy is described as a mode of memory that associates and rearranges experiences but does not involve creative reshaping in the way secondary imagination does. The cartoon of Aladdin is provided as an example of secondary imagination at work.

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3. Umm! What is
Imagination? I
can’t
understand it
!! It seems
hard !

4. Imagination is called the faculty
of imagining, is the ability to form
new images and sensations in
the mind. …

5. Well, now it seems
easy…A general
definition will help
a lot to read the
concept of
Imagination
according to
Coleridge..!

6. “The imagination then, I consider either
as primary or secondary. The primary
imagination I hold to be the living power
and prime agent of all human perception,
And as a repetition in the find mind of the
infinite I Am.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge;
“Biographia Literaria”

9. Primary imagination is merely the
power of receiving impression of the
external world through the senses. It is
an involuntary act of the mind, the
human mind receives impressions and
sensations from the outside world. It is
in this way that clear and coherent
perception becomes possible.

11. Now what is the
secondary
imagination??!!

12. Secondary
Imagination is more
active and conscious.
It requires an effort to
the will and
conscious effort. It
selects the raw
material and reshapes
and models.

13. “The Secondary I consider
as an echo of the former, co-
existing with the conscious
will, yet still as identical with
The primary in the kind of its
and differing only in degree,
and in the mode of its operation.
It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in
order to re-create; or where this
Process is rendered impossible, yet
Still, at all even as all objects (as
objects) are essentially fixed and
dead.”

14. Secondary Imagination reshapes
the data. Thus it is a “a shaping
and modifying power.” By
receiving and categorizing data
it creates something new. For
example : water and sugar.

15. Secondary
imagination is a
creative force. It
recreates the
experiences that
primary
imagination
supplies to it.
According to
dissolves and
diffuses in order to
re-create.

16. Now what is
Fancy??!

17. Fancy is employed for
the task of “passive”
and “mechanical”.
Fancy is concerned
with the mechanical
operations of the
mind.

18. “Fancy has no other counters to
Play with but fixities and definites.
The fancy is no other than a mode of
Memory emancipated from the order
Of time and space; and blended, and
modified by that empirical phenomenon
on of the will which we express by
the word choice. But equally with the
ordinary memory it must receive all
its materials ready made from the law
Of association.”

19. One can use fancy as
power to create
memory mosaic or
colleges. It rearranges
what we experience. It
associates data to
create something new.

20. Fancy creates an new entity
by associating datas. It
emancipates from the order
of time and space. So fancy
is capable to provide a new
entity.

21. The cartoon series of Aladdin and
his magic lamp is also an
imagination of the maker. It is one
kind of secondary imagination. The
director gathered the data and
thus reshaped it.