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Correspondance Imaginale : De Lima des Freitas & Gilbert Durand

Cette correspondance entre Lima des Freitas et Gilbert Durand explore les thèmes qui les passionnaient : l’opérativité des grands mythes portugais, le culte du Saint-Esprit, la clé de Dante, le mythe du Roi Caché, et d’autres aspects uniques. Ils nous apprennent à décoder le langage des mythèmes à travers les traditions, et font des liens significatifs et surprenants. Leur correspondance met également en lumière les défis auxquels sont confrontés l’artiste et l’universitaire dans un monde dominé par le matérialisme.


Czesław Miłosz’s and Gilbert Durand’s structures of the imaginary

Gilbert Durand, the author of the classic The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary, initiated a new area of research in the humanities, first in France and then worldwide. He proposed a morphological classification of broadly conceived structures of the imaginary, which includes symbols, images, and myths that are specific to a given author or culture. Drawing on various disciplines, Durand’s work can be seen as a vast undertaking aimed at rehabilitating the imaginary. He sees the imaginary is an art of human intellectual life and an essential aspect of human nature. Dreams, symbols, and images together constitute a kind of “transcendental fantastic”, without which a human being cannot experience wholeness or completeness. The article argues that the works of Czesław Miłosz, in which images form veritable magnetic fields gravitating around a number of central poetic symbols, can be read as a practical implementation of Durand’s theories.