Bisociation

Quick meaning: Bisociation is a noun meaning (psychology) A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.

Meaning

(psychology) A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.

Example Sentences

In Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, images of confinement merge with family images. One of the most memorable of these bisociations is that involving the mother's "imprisonment" of the first-person narrator's hair in braids.

Arthur Koestler's concept of bisociation was introduced in the last chapter to explain how associating two absurd or ridiculous ideas gives rise to humour. Koestler goes on to describe how bisociation may be the key to creativity.

Bisociation is the contact of two operative fields.[…]The junctional concept which connects the ideas of two operative fields, is the bisociative concept, and the combination of two mental associations which are logically unrelated in bisociation.

In 1964, Arthur Koestler proposed a theory of general creativity wherein he outlined the process of bisociation and explained its importance with respect to originality. The phenomenon of bisociation involves the intermingling or bringing together of two or more unconnected matrices of thought.

Word Forms

• bisociations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pairing, cross-pollination, combinationalism, consociation, syntropy, condensation.

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