| Abstract [eng] |
Reflecting on the problem of reality in today‘s philosophical discourse tension between phenomenology and ontology is observed. Bachelard develops both phenomenology and ontology in the theory of imagination, applying phenomenological method specifically as a tool to describe the emergence of a subjective image in consciousness without, however, adopting phenomenological assumptions. The assumptions on which Bachelard‘s theory of imagination is based become clear through the reconstruction of the concept of reality. Through falling into a state of rêverie, moving from formal to material image creation, a reality-opening dynamic is observed: ambivalence of the world, independence of consciousness and matter from each other, break of the consciously constructed horizontal time by a priori vertical time. Analysis of the concept of matter and time shows that Bachelard‘s concept of reality is based on the assumptions of materialistic modern physics, where an isolated instant is perceived as real, discountinuous time and rhythmic repetition of that instant creates continuity of duration. Imagination as a capacity to express world‘s ambivalence within one isolated poetical instant seems to be rooted in temporal reality what presupposes dual origin of the image: subjective consciousness and archetypes as well as temporal reality, which is expressed by the rhythmical characteristics of matter unsubordinated to consciousness. |
