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I have coined the term ‘bisociation’ in order to make a distinction
between the routine skills of thinking on a single ‘plane’, as it were,
and the creative act, which, as I shall try to show, always operates on

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36 THE ACT OF CREATION

more than one plane. The former may be called single-minded, the
latter a double-minded, transitory state of unstable equilibrium where
the balance of both emotion and thought is disturbed. The forms which
this creative instability takes in science and art will be discussed later;
first we must test the validity of these generalizations in other fields of
the comic.