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“Just a few nights ago the roaring fire prompted a conversation about Gaston Bachelard's Psychoanalysis of Fire,' I said to Foucault. 'Did you by any chance know Bachelard?'
'Yes, I did,' Foucault responded. 'He was my teacher and exerted a great influence upon me.'
'I can just visualize Bachelard musing before his hearth and devising the startling thesis that mankind tamed fire to stimulate his daydreaming, that man is fundamentally the dreaming animal.'
'Not really,' Foucault blurted out. 'Bachelard probably never saw a fireplace or ever listened to water streaming down a mountainside. With him it was all a dream. He lived very ascetically in a cramped two-room flat he shared with his sister.'
'I have read somewhere that he was a gourmet and would shop every day in the street markets to get the freshest produce for his dinner.'
'Well, he undoubtedly shopped in the outdoor markets,' Foucault responded impatiently, 'but his cuisine, like his regimen, was very plain. He led a simple life and existed in his dream.'
'Do you shop in the outdoor markets in Paris?' Jake asked Michel.
'No,' Foucault laughed, 'I just go to the supermarket down the street from where I live.”
― Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]
'Yes, I did,' Foucault responded. 'He was my teacher and exerted a great influence upon me.'
'I can just visualize Bachelard musing before his hearth and devising the startling thesis that mankind tamed fire to stimulate his daydreaming, that man is fundamentally the dreaming animal.'
'Not really,' Foucault blurted out. 'Bachelard probably never saw a fireplace or ever listened to water streaming down a mountainside. With him it was all a dream. He lived very ascetically in a cramped two-room flat he shared with his sister.'
'I have read somewhere that he was a gourmet and would shop every day in the street markets to get the freshest produce for his dinner.'
'Well, he undoubtedly shopped in the outdoor markets,' Foucault responded impatiently, 'but his cuisine, like his regimen, was very plain. He led a simple life and existed in his dream.'
'Do you shop in the outdoor markets in Paris?' Jake asked Michel.
'No,' Foucault laughed, 'I just go to the supermarket down the street from where I live.”
― Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]

“If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading.”
― The Seventh Function of Language
― The Seventh Function of Language

“Un °ùê±¹±ð qui ne change pas les dimensions du monde est-il vraiment un °ùê±¹±ð ?”
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“D'autres amours viendront bien entendu se greffer sur les premières forces aimantes. Mais toutes ces amours ne pourront jamais détruire la priorité historique de notre premier sentiment. La chronologie du cÅ“ur est indestructible.”
― Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter
― Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter

“Quand la cloche des fleurs résonne au sommet des ombelles, toute la terre se tait, tout le ciel parle.”
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“La ±è´Çé²õ¾±±ð n'est pas une tradition, c'est un °ùê±¹±ð primitif, c'est l'éveil des images premières.”
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“On veut toujours que l'imagination soit la faculté de former des images. Or elle est plutôt la faculté de déformer les images fournies par la perception, elle est surtout la faculté de nous libérer des images premières, de changer les images. S'il n'y a pas changement d'images, unions inattendues d'images, il n'y a pas imagination, il n'y a pas d'action imaginante. Si une image présente ne fait pas penser à une image absente, si une image occasionnelle ne détermine pas une prodigalité d'images aberrantes, une explosion d'images, il n'y a pas imagination. Il y a perception, souvenir d'une perception, mémoire familière, habitude des couleurs et des formes. Le vocable fondamental qui correspond à l'imagination, ce n'est pas image, c'est imaginaire. La valeur d'une image se mesure à l'étendue de son auréole imaginaire. Grâce à l'imaginaire, l'imagination est essentiellement ouverte, évasive. Elle est dans le psychisme humain l'expérience même de l'ouverture, l'expérience même de la nouveauté. [...] Le ±è´Çè³¾±ð est essentiellement une aspiration à des images nouvelles.”
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“L'imagination est une force première. Elle doit naître dans la solitude de l'être imaginant.”
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“Le mot inducteur [est] l'image première productrice d'images secondaires. Si l'on suit cette image comme système d'analyse, l'analyse s'ordonne d'elle-même. Au contraire, faute d'attention à cette image inductrice, des pages entières paraissent obscures, pauvres, froides. Elles sont inertes. On n'a pas épousé leur courant de vie.”
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“Par l'imagination nous abandonnons le cours ordinaire des choses. Percevoir et imaginer sont aussi antithétiques que ±è°ùé²õ±ð²Ô³¦±ð et absence. Imaginer c'est s'absenter, c'est s'élancer vers une vie nouvelle.”
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
― Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
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