Gaston Bachelard, master dreamer of the elements, animates the waters of the soul with his stirring, fluid imagination. With the subtlety of a poet, he ranges from the surface of water with its reflective narcissism to the very depths where water flows into death. Clear waters, deep water, the Charon Complex, water in combination with other elements, maternal waters, water's morality, violent water, water's voice. The material imagination of water allows us to de-objectify objects and deform forms enabling us to dream and perceive the flow of soul in the world. THE BACHELARD TRANSLATIONS are the inspiration of Joanne H. Stroud, a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute, who in 1981 contracted with Jos Corti to publish in English the untranslated works of Bachelard on the imagination through the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Dallas, Texas. Gaston Bachelard is...
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