American psychologist Gordon Willard Allport formulated a similar definition and emphasized the “healthful” structure of the eidetic by stating “definition should be understood to exclude both pathological hallucinations and dream images, and to admit those spontaneous images of phantasy which, though possessed of perceptual character, cannot be said to be literally revivals or restorations of any specific perception.” (Allport, 1924, p. 100) In seeing an eidetic image, definite somatic events as well as a feeling of meaning are also present. The eidetic image is “seen” within the mind or literally seen externally. The eidetic image is not dependent on any prior experience, condition, state, or event. In a more general context, the eidetic can be defined as a normal subjective visual image experienced with noticeable vividness whether evoked by an actual external object or not.
EIDETIC IMAGERY EXAMPLE SERIES
In Klüver's words, "the Eidetic Image has been identified in psychological literature as a vision, as a source for new thought and feeling, as a material picture in the mind which can be scanned by the person as he would scan a real current event in his environment, and as a potent, highly significant stimulus which arises from within the mind and throws it into a series of self-revealing imagery effects" (Klüver, 1932 Richardson, 1969 Ahsen, 1977). 2.8 Distinction from hypnotic and hypnagogic image.2.5 Distinction from active imagination or directed daydream.2.3 Distinction from icon or short-term memory image.2.1 As an intermediate link between various imagery levels.
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