%0 Journal Article
%T Gaston Bachelard's Philosophy of Imagination: An Introduction
%A Edward K. Kaplan
%J S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
%D 2012
%I S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
%X Bachelard¡¯s works on imagination have been used primarily by literary critics interested in the archetypal imagery of writers. His treatment of the imagination of matter has led to a method of classifying poets according to their favorite substances, based on a view of Bachelard as a ¡°psychoanalyst¡± of the elements. But the phenomena of imagination, the images themselves, are not his fundamental concern. Bachelard¡¯s physics and chemistry of imagination also imply a metaphysics. Definition of the contents and function of imagination illustrating a philosophy of imagination in itself is the purpose of the present essay.
%K Bachelard
%K Philosophy of Imagination
%K psychoanalisys
%U http://www.scienzaefilosofia.it/res/site70201/res647565_13-KAPLAN.pdf