num_pages: 116
description: “[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination …” – J.G. Weightman, The New York Review of Books
language: English
title: The Psychoanalysis of Fire
titlecomplete: The Psychoanalysis of Fire
genres: Theory, France, Poetry, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Essays, Literary Criticism, Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 715
publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul