Freud / Baschelard: the keys to imagination

In the article Freud / Baschelard: the keys to imagination the concepts of imagination by Freud and Jung are analysed. The author of the article analyses the connection between phantasizing and consciousness, sub-consciousness, and psychic reality. The article proves the importance of the classical psychoanalysis for the development of European psychoanalitical aesthetics. A special attention is given to Baschelard’s personality and works. Baschelard contributed to classical and postclassical psychoanalysis by adding certain complexes of culture. He formulated them by researching myths, stories, legends, religions, and the works of the Natural Sciences, poetry and literature. Baschelard introduced the concept of material imagination (the four elements – fire, water, earth and air) into its modern interpretationVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij