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The Poetics of Reverie(Updated)
Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
by Gaston Bachelard, Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1971 by Beacon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6413-9, ISBN: 0-8070-6413-0

"In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins o ..."

The Psychoanalysis of Fire(Updated)
by Gaston Bachelard, Northrop Frye, Alan Ross, A. C. Ross
Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 1987 by Beacon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6461-0, ISBN: 0-8070-6461-0

""[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 Psychoanalysis of Fire(Updated)
by Gaston Bachelard, Northrop Frye
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 1987 by Quartet Qrime
ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-0033-0, ISBN: 0-7043-0033-8

"The subject of this unusual book is best described by the author. "We are going to study a problem that no one has managed to approach objectively, one in which the initial charm of the object is so strong that it still has the power to warp the minds of the clearest thinkers and to keep bringing them back to the poetic fold in which dreams replace thought and poems conceal theorems. This problem is the psychological problem posed by ou ..."