L'Imagination symbolique

L'Imagination symbolique (literally The Symbolic Imagination) is a philosophical anthropology book from French anthropologist Gilbert Durand. The first edition was issued in 1964. Durand reprises his influential concept of the anthropological trajectory, and he proposed a "tactical pedagody of the imaginary."^[1]

Some passages from the essay are revisited version of Dudans's 1954 publication in SUP.: Initiation philosophique.^[2] Among the differences, the change in terminology from "cultures apolliniennes" to "régime diurne," and from "cultures dionysiennes" to "régime nocturne"; the earlier terminology followed that of Ruth Benedict and Nietzsche, while the new terminology follows what Durand formulated in 1960 with The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary.

Editions and translations

• 1970 象徴の想像力 / Shōchō no sōzōryoku, translated by Akira Unami
• 1971 La imaginación simbólica, published by Amorrortu Editores
• 1999 L'immaginazione simbolica, translated by Anna Chiara Peduzzi
• 1988 A imaginação simbólica
• 1998 Sembolik imgelem, Translated by Ayşe MERAL

See also

• Collective unconscious
• Ernst Cassirer (1944) An essay on man
• Imaginary (sociology)