Chapter 6

IMAGINATION IN ANIMALS.

Difficulties of the subject.--The degree of imagination in animals.--Does creative synthesis exist in them? Affirmation and denials.--The special form of animal imagination is motor, and shows itself through play: its numerous varieties.--Why the animal imagination must be above all motor: lack of intellectual development.--Comparison with young children, in whom the motor system predominates: the roles of movements in infantile insanity. 93