Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Esemplastic

Wednesday 4th May 2016

Esemplastic \ [es-em-plas-tik, -uh m-] 
adjective
1. having the ability to shape diverse elements or concepts into a unified
whole: the esemplastic power of a great mind to simplify the difficult.

Quote
 the ability to make huge leaps between seemingly incongruous images and to
synthesize them-- what psychologists call loose associations and Coleridge called "the esemplastic gift"--and the ability to become obsessed and to stay obsessed
and to pull all perceptions into a whole though the lens of that obsession.
Susan Neville, Sailing the Inland Sea, 2007

Origin
Esemplastic was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his seminal work of
literary criticism, Biographia Literaria, published in 1817.


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