THE UNREAL AND THE IMAGE IN GASTON BACHELARD’S PHENOMENOLOGICAL POETICS
THE UNREAL AND THE IMAGE IN GASTON BACHELARD’S PHENOMENOLOGICAL POETICS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the main aspects of Gaston Bachelard’s phenomenological poetics, focused on the fundamental concepts of unreal and image. Concerning that what Bachelard calls “the realism of the unreal”, it is the result of the imaginary creativity which adds to the reality a new dimension, opening inside it another horizon. In the same way Sartre conceived this problem, it means a reduction that puts into brackets the real context in which appears the imaginary unreality of the work of art. This unreal otherness is the image itself, seen as revealing a direct ontology. The poetic space of the image is that of the language the creative subject speaks. But beyond the subject, this primary utterance makes possible the appearance of an image which speaks by itself.

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