Name: The Psychoanalysis of Fire
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Author: Gaston Bachelard
ISBN: 9780807064610

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Physical Book

Author

Gaston Bachelard

Publisher

Beacon Press

Year

1968

Language

English

Pages

132

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.35

ISBN

9780807064610

ISBN13

9780807064610

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The Psychoanalysis of Fire

Gaston Bachelard (Author) · Beacon Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Psychoanalysis of Fire "

"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..." – J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books

Gaston Bachelard

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Philosopher, epistemologist, poet, physicist, professor, and literary critic is in a certain sense an unclassifiable author. He was interested in the history of modern or contemporary science, and at the same time in literary imagination, to which he dedicated parallel attention. He earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1927. Between 1930 and 1940, he was a philosophy professor at the Faculty of Letters in Dijon, and later, between 1940 and 1954, he was a professor of history and philosophy of sciences at the Sorbonne, succeeding Abel Rey. In the literary-critical part of his work, Bachelard will focus on deepening the problem of poetic imagination. His studies on the psychology of the elements - water, air, earth - in relation to literature are now classics: Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938), Water and Dreams (1942), Air and Dreams (1943), Earth and Reveries of Will (1948) The Poetics of Space (1957), and The Poetics of Reverie (1960). Bachelard's influence has been evident in later thinkers who have addressed the same theme. He was also read by Barthes or Starobinski, and figures like Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault have acknowledged his importance in the epistemological field. Other works: The Formation of the Scientific Spirit (1938), Rational Materialism (1953), The Intuition of the Instant (1973), The Philosophy of the "No": An Essay on a Philosophy of the New Scientific Spirit (2003)

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