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Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space PDF

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‘Translated from the French by Meria Jolas Gaston Bachelard Foreword by Btienne Gilson Bescon Press « Boston 1 th se from ela a ara in soins oe at 4 ts pot de a mon qui iene reppert Ue porte omvere om ere ‘ne ors frmde wn ene Lemonde bat de ante cl dems fort, Les Amaemens Nate, p37 (Atte dor of he hoe who wil oe Knacking? ‘An open doe, weenter ‘Aeledoor 2 den ‘The wr pe bas beyond my door) ‘The howe, quite obviouly, isa privileged entity for a phenomenological study of the faite values of inside Space, provided, of eoure that we ake i in both its unity fd is compleaiy, snd endeavor to integrate all he epi ‘rales in one fondamentl value. For the house frnihes 1 disper Images and body of images atthe same dime. In both eases Tall prove tht imagination augnenes the ‘valves of rai. A wort ofstration fr images concentrates them about the howe. Trantending our memories ofall the houses in which we fave found abel, above and be yond all the houses we hive dreamed se lived in, can we Folate an intimate, concrete ewence that would be ja fcation ofthe uncommen value of all of ur Sages of protected iotinacy? Thi, then, isthe main problem "mn order toslve it, isnot enough to conde the howe 1 an “object” om which we can make our judgments and aydreams react. For 2 Phenomenologist, 2 peychoanalst ora pryhologist (Deve tne points of view being named 4 he pono space sn the order of decreasing eficacy, I is not a question of ‘ering houses or enumerating their pictnesqu features oe Mnauing for which reans they aze confortable. Oa the contrary, we murt go Beyond the problems of dexciption hether tis dexcipton be objective or subjective, hati “Whether it give fact of impresionin order wo attain 19 The primary virtues, chow hat reveal an‘atachment that is tative in some way to the primary function of inhabiting. 1X geographer or an enographercan give 3 descriptions eckecy sted type of dwellings In each varie, the Phe fomenologist makes the effort needed vo size upon the sre, immediate wellbeing it enclos. Errevery dvelling, even the richest, the Sot task of che ‘henomencogit i to Gad the original sel Dut the related problems are many if we want to deter mine the profound reality of all the subtle shadings of out ‘tachment fora chosen spt. Fora phenomenologist thee ‘SReings mont be taken atthe fest rough outlines of 2 py Seloskal phenomenon. The shading is no an additonal ‘SAperical coloring. We should therefore Have to sty how webabie our viel spl, i accord with all the dialect Url Bow we take root, day alter day, ina “corner ofthe world” For our house is our corner of the word. As as often ‘peee al tis our fst universe, a real somos in ery Sea of the word. IC we lok att inimately, the humblest seine bar Bevery, Authors of books on “the humble rue" Sten mention this feature of the poets of space. artis mention is much too soccine. Finding Wille to ‘unre in te humble home, they spend ite time thers sethey exe it as italy 1 withost really experi Bish ts primidivenes, a primitivenes which belongs to {Et deh and poor alle if chey are willing to dream. put our adult life wo dspowesed of the esential bene: ‘guts sathropocomnie ts bave become v0 sac, that we Sriooe feel Ge Geet atachment in the universe of the fe net there fa no dearth of abstract, “workt

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