The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the ImaginationFirst published in 1940, Sartre's The Imaginary is a cornerstone of his philosophy. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the intentionality of consciousness as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The Imaginary crystallized Sartre's worldview and artistic vision. Here he presented the first extended examination of the concepts of nothingness and freedom, both of which are derived from the ability of consciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they are not. These ideas would drive Sartre's existentialism and his entire theory of human freedom, laying the foundation for his masterwork Being and Nothingness three years later. This new translation by Jonathan Webber rectifies flaws in the terminology of the first translation and recaptures the essence of Sartre's phenomenology. Webber's perceptive new introduction helps to decipher this challenging, seminal work, placing it in the context of the author's work and the history of philosophy. |
Contents
The Intentional Structure of the Image | 3 |
The Image Family | 17 |
The Nature of the Analogon in the Mental Image | 57 |
Affectivity | 68 |
The Role of the Word in the Mental Image | 83 |
The Role of the Image in Psychic Life IV Image and Perception ៦៦៩ន | 97 |
The Irreal Object | 125 |
Conduct in the Face of the Irreal | 136 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic affective affirm aims Alcan analogon appears apprehend arabesques believe character Charles VIII colour comprehension concept concrete constituted correlate depiction Descartes determine doubt dream dreamer Edmund Husserl entoptic example existence experience external eye movements face fact feeling Flach function Georges Dumas give given grasp hallucination hand hypnagogic image illusion of immanence imaginary imagination imaging consciousness imaging knowledge imitation impression intention intuition irreal object judgement kinaesthetic knowledge connaissance Leroy lines matter Maurice Chevalier mental image nature ness nihilation nothingness object as imaged Panthéon Paris patient perceive perception person phenomenon philosophy phosphenes picture Pierre Janet portrait posit precisely present produce protention psychic psychology pure qualities reality realized reflective consciousness relation remains represent representation role Sartre Sartre's sciousness seems sensations sense Seventh Symphony signification simply spatial spontaneity structure symbolic schema synaesthesia synthesis synthetic theory thesis thing thought tion translated visual word