%0 Journal Article
%T ¡±Imagination¡±, ¡±imaginaire¡±, ¡±imaginal¡± Three concepts for defining creative fantasy
%A Corin Braga
%J Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
%D 2007
%I Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies
%X This paper comparatively presents three notions related to the concept of creative fantasy. These three terms (¡±imagination¡±, ¡±imaginaire¡±, ¡±imaginal¡±) have been developed by the French school of research on the imagination (¡°recherches sur l¡¯imaginaire¡±), which is little known in the Anglo-Saxon academic field. As such, the terms don¡¯t even have convenient translations and linguistic equivalents. Briefly, imagination is fantasy conceived as a combinatory faculty of the psyche. French rationalistic ¡°philosophes¡± saw it as a misleading and rather weakly creative ability. ¡±L¡¯imaginaire¡± is the resourceful and inventive aspect of fantasy, as conceived by the Romantics and then theorized by psychoanalysis and contemporary French philosophers. ¡±L¡¯imaginal¡±, or ¡±mundus imaginalis¡± is a concept defined by Henry Corbin in order to designate fantasies as self-sustained, ontological beings.
%K Fantasy
%K imagination
%K ¡±imaginaire¡±
%K ¡±mundus imaginalis¡±
%K Plato
%K Kant
%K Gaston Bachelard
%K Gilbert Durand
%K Henry Corbin
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