Image and poetic word as anthropocosmic daydream: reflections on the aesthetic imagination in Gaston Bachelard

Abstract

The being of man and the being of the world are related from imaginative forces that determine our reality. In this relationship, mediated by the poetic word and the images, new nucleus of meaning burst forth, cohesive in the form of a matrix the multiple forces that the world expresses and interrelates. How these forces and those images create an ontological fabric and its hidden meaning can be explained through the interpretation that Bachelard offers in relation to the imaginary and its cosmological structures. In this balance, the image and the word appear as a limit capable of capturing the evolution of life, of the reverie turned into a cosmos. According to Bachelard, the reception of that truth in the form of an image in consciousness will occur in the time of the instant, and for this he will resort to a heterodox phenomenology able to capture the essence of what is given there.