num_pages: 132
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 the poetic imagination ..." – J.G. Weightman,  The New York Times Review of Books
language: English
title: The Psychoanalysis of Fire
titlecomplete: The Psychoanalysis of Fire
genres: France, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Psychology, Science, Essays, Poetry, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 715
publisher: Beacon Press