Immaginazione e immagini: a partire da Bachelard = Imagination and images: starting with Bachelard

it' in its authenticity, given the transfiguring, distorting intention of imagining images. Therefore, in Bachelard, the difference between the psychic experience and the image is clear: the image is not the ordinary story of a life, but the means that allows us to enter life itself, summarising and showing it. Here the archetypal function of images can be outlined as well as the reason for their opening up a world. For this reason, Bachelard's foundation of the poetical language lies in its relationship with the image