Gaston Bachelard et le grand rêve

Abstract

Bachelard made us see the imagnation is a cerative strenght not contrary the rational thought, but opening the mind to discover behind objects the surreal depthn wich is the base of the world.

The world surrounds man in a sensory bath in which he cannot escapes and if he allows himself to conform to musical flow of reality, that offers itself in a such a privileged way that only poetic words can handle them, thus becoming capable of looking below the surface by reverie. People have managed to conserve animistic customs, they still naturally feel an indestructible link between man and the world, between its words and the depth of things, between its dream and the reality. A population dating back 50000 years, the Australian aborigines have inscribed their existence in a myth where the reality of the world was upheld by a dream. For the Austalian Aborigines dream and reality come together. Variations around their beliefs sheds a different light on the division of dream and reality by positioning of images. This reflects the border between sense ans nonsense, between dream and reality, is an area of conquering space in wich each member supports the other.