The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination

by Sartre,Jean-Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415287555
• ISBN10: 0415287553
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A central work of Sartre's existentialismFirst and most concise presentation of Sartre's ideas of freedom and nothingnessNew translation clarifies difficult concepts and corrects inaccuracies of first translationNew introduction by an expert on Sartre's early writings and philosophy

Table of Contents

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION BY ARLETTE ELKAIM-SARTRE	vii
PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN WEBBER	xiii
NOTES ON THE TRANSLATION	xxvii
PART I The Certain	1	(54)
The Intentional Structure of the Image	3	(1)
1 Description	4	(13)
I. The Method	4	(1)
II. First Characteristic: The Image is a Consciousness	5	(3)
III. Second Characteristic: The Phenomenon of Quasi-Observation	8	(3)
IV. Third Characteristic: The Imaging Consciousness Posits its Object as a Nothingness	11	(3)
V. Fourth Characteristic: Spontaneity	14	(1)
VI. Conclusion	14	(3)
2 The Image Family	17	(38)
I. Image, Portrait, Caricature	17	(4)
II. Sign and Portrait	21	(4)
III. From Sign to Image: Consciousness of Imitations	25	(4)
IV. From Sign to Image: Schematic Drawings	29	(6)
V. Faces in the Fire, Spots on Walls, Rocks in Human Form	35	(2)
VI. Hypnagogic Images, Scenes and Persons Seen in Coffee Grounds, in a Crystal Ball	37	(13)
VII. From Portrait to Mental Image	50	(2)
VIII. Mental image	52	(3)
PART II The Probable	55	(40)
The Nature of the Analogon in the Mental Image	57	(38)
I. Knowledge	57	(11)
II. Affectivity	68	(5)
III. Movements	73	(10)
IV. The Role of the Word in the Mental Image	83	(2)
V. The Mode of Appearance of a Thing in the Mental Image	85	(10)
PART III The Role of the Image in Psychic Life	95	(28)
I. The Symbol	97	(10)
II. Symbolic Schemas and Illustrations of Thought	107	(5)
III. Image and Thought	112	(8)
IV. Image and Perception	120	(3)
PART IV The Imaginary Life	123	(54)
I. The Irreal Object	125	(11)
II. Conduct In the Face of the Irreal	136	(12)
III. Pathology of the Imagination	148	(11)
IV. The Dream	159	(18)
Conclusion	177	(18)
I. Consciousness and Imagination	179	(9)
II. The Work of Art	188	(7)
NOTES	195	(9)
INDEX	204