GASTON BACHELARD : LE JEU DE SÉDUCTION DES IMAGES DU FEU (GASTON BACHELARD: THE PLAY OF SEDUCTION IN THE IMAGES OF FIRE)

• Main Author: MARLY BULCÃO
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press 2015-11-01
• Series: Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Online Access: http://www.agathos-international-review.com/issue6_2/04.Marly%20Bulcao.pdf

The purpose of this article is to focus on the most important works which Gaston Bachelard devoted to the poetic analysis of the element « fire ». First, we delve into La Psychanalyse du feu, to demonstrate that this is the moment in the trajectory of the philosopher where he discovers that there is a path different from rationality that can unveil aspects of the element fire which escape a scientific approach. Then, we look into his posthumous Fragments d’une poétique du feu in an effort to aprehend the meaning ofwhat Bachelard calls complex. Our intention is to have a deeper understanding of what he identifies as the Empedocles complex and the Prometheus complex, both of which clarify the role of the element fire in poetic seduction. In the conclusion of this article we will be analyzing an issue that chases the reader throughout this last Bachelardian work about fire, i.e., whether the book ought be understood as a book of philosophy, of literary criticism, or a book of poetry.