Mimesis (understanding imagination)

We thought that art had to do with representing nature – or expressing feelings - and we found out that it concerns imaginations. Should we understand art, perhaps we could understand imagination. Philosopher investigated the first question for centuries with unequal success, and we are astronomically far away from even framing the second.

Art

Art consists in taking form out of ideas - i.e., out of imagination. And the same applies to science.

If we take into account the traditional aristotelian distinction among form and substance, it follows as a corollary that imagination is the substance - something jung would have agreed upon.