 Psychology comes from Dewey’s idealist period, which for example shows up in the book’s treatment of imagination, aesthetic feeling, and beauty. Dewey distinguishes between different forms of imagination, which he defines as intellect embodying ideas in particular images. The highest form of imagination is creative imagination, which allows us to penetrate into the hidden meaning of things through finding sensuous forms that are both highly revealing and pleasurable. It makes its objects anew through non-mechanical separation and combination. Implicitly following Kant, Dewey holds that creative imagination’s goal is free play of the self’s faculties. Its function is to seize meaning and embody it in sensuous form to give rise to feeling, thus representing the freely active subjective self.