Dmitry Rekun

Cognitive Visual Culture

It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the printers call it) keeping. Frankenstein

1. One day, as he was sitting on a bank, he feigned to himself an orphan virgin robbed of her little portion by a treacherous lover, and crying after him for restitution. So strongly was the image impressed upon his mind that he started up in the maid's defence and ran forward to seize the plunderer with all the eagerness of a real pursuit.

1. When Crusoe had left his island and been ill, his "imagination worked up to such a height " that he SAW the "old Spaniard, Friday's father, and the reprobate-sailors," "looked at them steadily . . . as at persons just before " him and often frightened himself with " the images" of his fancy. Don Quixote's mind became "a world of disorderly notions" and a chaos of turbulent images made him insane.

2. Darwin cites the hallucination of a gentleman who, after looking attentively at a small statue of the Virgin, raised his head and saw the saine appearance at the end of the room.

3. Descartes suffered periodically from an insistent emotion; Rassels, during his broodings, suffered from insistent images. 4. reminiscent visualisation of the past considered as mental imagery which mimics the visual aspects of seen things, as a reflexion in the water mimics a tree by the brink of a pool 5a. images are not pictures in the mind as we naturally, and no doubt in ordinary life very conveniently, think, but things themselves interviewed under the particular circumstances known as memory, expectation or imagination.