Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelardwas a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 June 1884
CountryFrance
causality poetic
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
time world helping
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
dream memories awakening
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
dream giving function
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
men silence soul
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
imagine verify enriching
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
dream light poet
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
giving departure matter
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.
life dream passion
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.
dream children sea
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
space imagination house
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
strong believe men
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.
running reality perspective
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
dream relax phenomenology
By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."