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It’s been ten years since I coined the term mind’s eye deficiency – the journey so far

Words are powerful things. In 2015, with the help of a classics-savvy friend and two psychologist friends, I coined the term “aphantasia” to describe the absence of the mind’s eye. We borrow Aristotle’s word “fantasia” for the mind’s eye and add the prefix “a” to indicate its absence. This term was needed because we came… Read More »