Topic > Space and imagination in the poetics of Gaston Bachelard...

It is a phenomenological analysis of the underlying connections we have with our feelings and the spaces within our homes. To analyze his understanding of the relationship between space and imagination one must first understand his ideas and concepts on the word "space". He interprets space as everything that has been inhabited by a living being, a mental concept of space. “All truly inhabited space carries with it the essence of the notion of home” (page 5 of Poetics of Space). A space does not necessarily have to be literal, made of walls and roof, but Bachelard's findings examine how we alone can create spaces with our imagination and our presence and this happens when he discovers a bird's nest in his garden. Live birds and their eggs inhabit this nest, so it was a home too. Use your imagination to create the intimacy of a home's interior domestic spaces. Bachelard aims to separate the general understanding of a house as an object we occupy and to describe it more with personal images of experience and our memories. Start by introducing the attic and cellar to illustrate an overview of how different rooms evoke different thoughts and feelings. Therefore, by understanding a house and its spaces, he can understand the person, since the house is a manifestation of the soul. The cellar and the attic appear as the polarized space of a house. Discusses C. G Jung's findings and his differing beliefs that the cellar and attic represented fear throughout the house. When we hear a noise coming from the dark depths of the cellar, it is usually our imagination playing tricks on us. While Bachelard focuses only on the positive side of these spaces, that they are spaces of solitude and creativity. Since Bachelard is so focused on understanding the imagination, it is strange that he ignores the same ideas discussed as CG Jung and only analyzes one side of them. Not all