A Beautiful Description of the Act of Invention
The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which precedes the external has a twofold characteristic: the participation of the subconscious in the inventing subject; and that encounter with an external power which demands and obtains complete subjugation, so that the way to the solution is experienced as the fitting of one's own imagination to this power.
Friedrich Dessauer, Kultur, Technik und Gesellschaft (1954)
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The meeting of internal experience with external powers, matching power to imagination.
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