Si le mythe est devenu aujourd’hui une donnée incontournable pour comprendre l’âme humaine et ses différentes formes d’expression, il reste cependant équivoque et difficilement conceptualisable. En effet, le mythe est à la fois compris comme un récit fictif qui ne repose sur aucun fond de réalité mais aussi comme un discours vrai et hautement significatif. Pour bien marquer le sens philosophique de notre travail, nous avons commencé par poser le problème du mythe tel qu’il évolue dans la pensée européenne. Le mythe souffre d’une trop longue histoire, il a été déchiré entre rationalisme et romantisme. Puis nous avons questionné d’autres civilisations – les Fon du Dahomey, au Bénin – pour qui le mythe représente tout ce que les hommes doivent savoir et comprendre pour bien s’ancrer dans l’existant. Elles nous donnent à voir un mythe authentique, vivant, inséparable d’une gestuelle magico-religieuse. Ainsi le vrai sens du mythe ne se trouve pas dans nos livres, dans un Homère ou un Hésiode, mais dans le vécu même des hommes. Il est d’abord élaboré par les sociétés primitives, par des groupes d’hommes qui ne vivent que par et pour lui, avant d’être écrit, classé, interprété et réinterprété. Il semblerait à cet égard que Gaston Bachelard, à la fois poète et épistémologue, se soit intéressé au mythe. Il nous livre ainsi une réflexion originale, libre et ouverte qui nous en donne une autre image. Il pose le problème du mythe en soi, au cœur de l’écrit et, riche de ses lectures, il jette les bases d’une nouvelle mythanalyse. La compréhension du mythe semble pour nous incontournable aujourd’hui, car notre civilisation a irrémédiablement coupé entre les informations portées par des images et celles portées par les systèmes d’écritures. Cette rupture est sans doute la cause de cette grave crise spirituelle que nous traversons. Le mythe semble à cet égard salutaire : il nous reconduit directement vers les grands principes de la création, création du monde ou bien création poétique, il ré-enchante le monde. / If the myth has become today an unavoidable fact to understand the human soul and its different forms of expression, it remains, however, ambiguous and hardly conceptualizing. Indeed, the myth is at once understood as a fictitious narrative which isn’t based on any in-depth reality, but also as a real and highly significant discourse. In order to underline the philosophical meaning of our work, we have begun by assert the myth problem such as it evolves in the European thought. The myth is badly affected by a too long history; it has been divided between rationalism and romanticism. Then, we have questioned other civilizations – Fon from Dahomey, Benin – for whose myth represents all the human being must know and understand to become established in existing. They show us an authentic myth, alive, indivisible from a magical-religious body language. Thus, the real meaning of myth is not in our books, in Homere or Hésiode, but in the real life of humans. It is, first of all, evolved by the original societies, by human groups which lived for it and by it, before being written, classified, interpreted and re-interpreted. It would seem, in this regard, that Gaston Bachelard, at once poet and epistemologist, took interest in myth. He reveals us an original reflection, free and open which gives us another image. He asserts the problem of the myth itself, at the heart of writing and, as a rich reader, he lays the basis of a new myth-analysis. The understanding of the myth seems for u unavoidable today because our civilization has cut off, irreparably, between the information brought by images and those brought by the writing systems. This fracture is, no doubt, the reason of this serious spiritual crisis we pass on. The myth seems, in this regard, salutary: it renews us directly towards the great principles of the creation, creation of the world or poetic creation, it re-enchants the world.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:11:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1728635 bytes, checksum: 5b70f00835d0beed3f3f48bf337b3971 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Ce travail de réflexion apporte la pensée de Gaston Bachelard, penseur perspicace et infatigable dans ses recherches philosophiques. Il a vécu l'une des périodes les plus tumultueuses de la science, les années post-révolution einsteinienne. Cependant, Bachelard comprendre que cet événement représente un mouvement inhérent à la connaissance scientifique, qui doit être construit sur des corrections constantes et des approximations. Bachelard reconnaît que la connaissance est développé sous la dynamique de l imagination créatice, qui entraîne également la dynamique de la création artistique. Par conséquent, la pensée bachelardienne considère la vieille dichotomie entre la science et l'art manque de validité. L'activité scientifique et l'activité artistique peuvent harmoniser eux-mêmes, tout en préservant leurs différences constitutives, puisque les deux sont formées avec l'aide de la rêverie créatrice, la capacité originaire de dépasser et d élargir la realité, aussi bien, la possibilité de création radicalement nouvelle. Ainsi, par la lecture du travail philosophique de Bachelard, des écrits épistémologiques et des écrits de la poésie, on comprend comme l'imagination créatrice peut mantenir d'activité de l'homme diurne ou l'homme nocturne, un seul homme qui pense pendant qu il rêve et qui rêve pendant qu il pense. / Este trabalho reflexivo trata do pensamento de Gaston Bachelard, pensador arguto e incansável em suas investigações filosóficas. Ele viveu um dos períodos mais tumultuados para a ciência, os anos pós-revolução einsteiniana. Bachelard, porém, compreende que este evento representa um movimento inerente ao próprio conhecimento científico, que deve ser construído mediante constantes retificações e aproximações. Bachelard reconhece que o conhecimento se desenvolve sob a dinâmica originária da imaginação criadora, dinamicidade que também anima a criação artística. Nesse sentido, o pensamento bachelardiano considera a antiga dicotomia ciência e arte sem validade. A atividade científica e a atividade artística podem se harmonizar, ainda que preservando suas diferenças constitutivas, porquanto ambas se formam com o concurso do devaneio criador, capacidade de superar e de ampliar a realidade, bem como, possibilidade de criar o radicalmente novo. Assim, mediante a leitura da obra filosófica de Bachelard, os escritos epistemológicos e os escritos da poética, compreendemos como a imaginação criadora sustém quer a atividade do homem diurno quer a do homem noturno, um único e mesmo homem que pensa enquanto devaneia e devaneia enquanto pensa.

Le déséquilibre et le désordre du réel ont modifié chez l’homme baroque la vision de son être; leur présence écarte la gratuité de ses actes. Ses fascinations sont des indices révélateurs, ses rejets et ses attachements représentent des témoignages et des messages à déchiffrer. Notre étude essaie d’expliquer les raisons de la fascination de la génération baroque pour l’élément liquide à travers l’examen de l’imaginaire de ses aspects dans l’oeuvre baroque. L’imaginaire ou ce que Gilbert Durand appelle ‘’le capital pensé’’ de l’homme est une entité stratifiée dans la durée, plusieurs facteurs participent à sa structuration. Par conséquent, son examen exige une approche pluridisciplinaire et interdisciplinaire. Grâce aux sciences cognitives qui représentent la voie par laquelle passe l’avenir des recherches sur l’imaginaire selon Philippe Walter, la présente étude essaie d’éclairer l’Imaginaire baroque à travers l’examen de la valeur de l’élément de l’eau dans des textes publiés entre 1580 et 1640. Notre travail utilise quatre des six sciences cognitives qui sont désignées par Georges A. Miller et qui instaurent à travers leurs corrélations des domaines interdisciplinaires. Pour explorer les représentations de cet élément dans le texte baroque avec un objectif qui consiste à leur proposer des explications causales sont indispensablement mobilisées l’anthropologie, la philosophie, la psychologie, et la linguistique. L’imaginaire baroque est reconstitué dans notre recherche grâce aux 5 croisements établis entre les sciences précédentes et les disciplines de l’histoire de l’art, de la critique littéraire, du folklore, de l’ethnologie, de la mythologie, de la sociologie, et de l’histoire des religions. Notre travail examine l’un des aspects de la nature dans l’imaginaire baroque. A travers nos analyses, nous essayons de retracer l’être et l’existence de l’homme baroque grâce aux présences de l’un de leurs constituants dans l’oeuvre de ce dernier. L’élément de l’eau est ce constituant qui représente l’un des aspects de la nature. La problématique dans notre travail, est composée d’un volet qui porte sur la valeur de l’élément de l’eau dans l’oeuvre baroque. Il y a un second volet visant à prouver que l’examen de l’imaginaire représente un outil permettant de cerner les reliefs et les complexités d’un texte baroque et un texte ayant une structure similaire avec celle que possède ce dernier, c’est-à-dire une structure incohérente et non linéaire. Notre recherche aimerait proposer une lecture de l’imaginaire de la matière dans le texte baroque et dans le texte littéraire en général. Elle aimerait démontrer que l’examen distant et interactif des actes de l’homme aide à leur trouver des explications; et que l’examen de l’imaginaire d’une oeuvre qui représente un acte de l’imaginaire de l’homme, aide à cerner ses implicites, les raisons de sa création, et la psychologie qui a dominé les circonstances de sa production. / The imbalance and the chaos in which Baroque man lived, changed his vision of his entourage and at the same time they excluded the gratuitousness of his actions. His fascinations are messages to be deciphered, his rejections and attachments represent revealing clues and testimonials. Our study tries to explain the reasons of the fascination of the baroque generation for the liquid element through the examination of the imaginary of its aspects in the baroque work. The imaginary or what Gilbert Durand calls "thought capital" of man is a hybrid organism, several factors participate in its structuring therefore its examination requires an interdisciplinary approach. Through cognitive science, that represent the future of research on the imagination according to Philippe Walter, this study tries to illuminate the Baroque Imagination through the examination of the value the element of water in the works published between 1580 and 1640. Our work uses four of the six cognitive sciences which are designated by Georges A. Miller and which establish interdisciplinary fields through their correlations. To explore the representations of this element with the Anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and linguistics are indispensable to the objective of offering them causal explanations. The baroque imagination is reconstituted in our work by combining these sciences with the disciplines of the history of art, literary criticism, folklore, ethnology, mythology, sociology, and the history of religions. Our work examines one of the aspects of nature in the baroque work. Through our analyzes we try to trace the being and the existence of baroque man through the manifestations of one of their components in the work of the latter. The element of water which is this component and it represents one of the aspects of nature. The problematic in our work is composed of a component that deals with the value of the element of water in the baroque work. The second part aims to prove that the 7 examination of the imaginary represents a tool that helps to identify the reliefs of a baroque text and a text with a similar structure with the latter, that is to say an incoherent structure and complex. Our research proposes a reading for the imaginary of the material in the literary text. Our study would like to demonstrate that distant and interactive examination of human acts and his works serves to identify their explanations; and that the examination of the imaginary of a work which represents an act of the imaginary of man serves to identify its implicit and the reasons for its creation, and the psychology that dominated the circumstances of its production.

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Submitted by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-04-17T15:09:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_DANIELA_LANGER_FERREIRA_PARCIAL.pdf: 1052249 bytes, checksum: fe2e24d46cbb80ecb8301c9b902cf994 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-17T15:09:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_DANIELA_LANGER_FERREIRA_PARCIAL.pdf: 1052249 bytes, checksum: fe2e24d46cbb80ecb8301c9b902cf994 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-29 / This dissertation falls within the area of concentration in Creative Writing and is divided into two parts: the first, a work of fiction and the second, a reflective essay. Narrated in first person, the novel Antonia in the City accompanies the journey of Antonia, the protagonist, after her life changed as result of her oldest sister's su-icide. The character sees herself helpless in a large urban center, in need of solv-ing the bureaucratic issues related to her death and, at the same time, she tries to unravel the reasons that led to the tragic death of her sister. The essay follows issues related to the creative process, and proposes a reflection on the metaphor of water, a recurring element in Antonia in the City. To do so, the theories of Gaston Bachelard on the imaginary of water are used. / Esta disserta??o se inscreve na ?rea de concentra??o em Escrita Criativa e ? dividida em duas partes: na primeira, uma obra de fic??o e na segunda, um ensaio reflexivo. Narrada em primeira pessoa, a novela Antonia na cidade acompanha a jornada de Antonia, protagonista, ap?s ter a sua vida alterada em consequ?ncia do suic?dio de sua irm? mais velha. A personagem se v? desamparada em um grande centro urbano, precisando resolver as quest?es burocr?ticas relacionadas ? morte e, ao mesmo tempo, tentando desvendar os motivos que ocasionaram a morte tr?gica da irm?. O ensaio acompanha as quest?es relativas ao processo criativo, al?m de propor a reflex?o sobre a met?fora da ?gua, elemento recorrente em Antonia na cidade. Para tanto, utiliza das teorias de Gaston Bachelard sobre o imagin?rio da ?gua.

Esta dissertação de Mestrado visa apresentar os resultados e reflexões obtidos através de uma pesquisa envolvendo a inter-relação entre a História e Epistemologia da Ciência. Teve-se como objetivos principais desta investigação teórica: a construção de uma convergência epistemológica entre as ideias e defesas em Ciência dos filósofos Gaston Bachelard e Imre Lakatos, como também a construção de episódios em Ciência discutidos em grande parcela sob tais olhares histórico-filosóficos. Esta pesquisa possui abordagem qualitativa e quanto aos seus objetivos insere-se como descritiva-reflexiva. Iniciou-se tal investigação realizando um aprofundamento teórico envolvendo as especificidades de cada epistemologia com o objetivo de clarificar o entendimento referente aos pontos estruturantes de cada olhar epistemológico. Em relação ao processo de construção dos episódios em Ciência, realizou-se um levantamento bibliográfico contemplado em maior parte por livros e artigos científicos que tratassem da respectiva temática do episódio, buscando-se uma diversidade de fontes para fundamentar este processo de escrita, com o intuito de valorizar um olhar abrangente sobre a História da Ciência. De modo geral, a construção da convergência epistemológica se fundamentou no que ambas as epistemologias têm em comum que é a própria defesa da História da Ciência por uma natureza epistemológica dinâmica e evolutiva (no que tange à mutabilidade do conhecimento científico), visão normativa, essência dialética e caráter racional objetivo. Desta forma, buscou-se explorar as relações teóricas envolvendo os olhares histórico-filosóficos de ambos os epistemólogos na escrita dos episódios. O primeiro episódio em Ciência visou apresentar e refletir sobre dois programas científicos conflitantes na História da Ciência, os programas flogístico e calórico, os quais marcaram, pontualmente, o período pré-científico da Química e o nascimento das bases teóricas da Química moderna. Já o segundo episódio em Ciência almejou apresentar as principais concepções de matéria desenvolvidas pelos gregos durante a Antiguidade. Os episódios em Ciência produzidos nesta pesquisa valorizam um olhar histórico-filosófico da Ciência através da referida convergência, como também possibilitam uma compreensão da história do pensamento científico por uma natureza conjectural (naturalmente falível) e em constante estado de evolução. Desta forma, defende-se que as epistemologias de Lakatos e Bachelard possuem grande valia ao campo didático científico, pois fomentam concepções epistemológicas contemporâneas e defendem uma Ciência aberta e em constante estágio de devir. Além do mais, os episódios em Ciência podem servir como significativas ferramentas didáticas a abordagens de temas científicos elucidados por olhares que contemplam discussões pertinentes à essência histórico-filosófica do pensamento científico no contexto do ensino. Esta pesquisa evidencia, na base dos seus resultados finais, a necessidade de se buscar valorizar a qualificação da História da Ciência como um importante cerne das discussões dos conteúdos científicos no campo didático, como também a fomentação de um distanciamento em relação às concepções alicerçadas no contexto de ensino que remetem à epistemologia tradicional. / The aim of this Masters dissertation is to present results and reflections obtained from research that involved the interrelation between the History and the Epistemology of Science. The main objectives of this theoretical investigation were the following: the construction of an epistemological convergence between the ideas and advocacies of philosophers Gaston Bachelard and Imre Lakatos, in addition to the construction of Science episodes discussed mostly under such historical-philosophical viewpoints. The research is from a qualitative approach and regarding the objectives is inserted as descriptive-reflexive. The investigation started through further theoretical development involving the specifics of each epistemology with the objective of clarifying the understanding related to the structural points from each epistemological viewpoint. As to the process of construction of the Science episodes, a bibliographical ascertainment was made covering mainly books and scientific articles that dealt with the respective issue of the episode, seeking for source diversity to serve as the foundation for this writing process with the intent of valuing a comprehensive viewpoint of Science History. In general, the construction of the epistemological convergence was founded on where both epistemological share in common, namely the advocacy of Science History itself by a dynamic, evolving epistemological nature (pertaining to the mutability of scientific knowledge), normative viewpoint, dialectic essence, and an objective rational character. This way, an exploration of the theoretical relations was sought that involved the historical-philosophical viewpoints of both epistemologists for writing the episodes. The first Science episode is aimed at presenting and reflecting upon two conflicting scientific programs in Science History, the phlogistic and caloric programs, that were a timely marker of the pre-scientific period in Chemistry and the birth of the theoretical bases for modern Chemistry. The aims of the second Science episode is to present the main conceptions of matter developed by the Greeks in Antiquity. The Science episodes produced by this research value a historical-philosophical viewpoint of Science from the above mentioned convergence, and also allowed for an understanding of the history of scientific thought by a conjectural nature (naturally fallible) and in a constant state of evolution. This way, it is advocated that Lakatos' and Bachelard's epistemologies are of great value to the scientific didactic field by enhancing contemporary epistemological conceptions and advocate that Science be open and in a permanent state of becoming. Furthermore, the Science episodes may serve as significant didactic tools for approaching scientific themes elucidated by viewpoints the include discussions pertaining the historical-philosophical essence of the scientific thought within a teaching context. Based on its final results, this research brings to evidence the need to pursue valuing the qualification of Science History as an important core when discussing scientific contents in the didactic field, as well as enhancing a further distancing in relation go conceptions founded within the teaching context that remit to traditional epistemology.

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<p>The phenomenology of Gaston Bachelard holds that readers, or viewers, relate to spatial imagery through the use of age-old archetypes. These archetypes form a collective image-memory that is employed when reading space. One such image is the house. The house for Bachelard is, however, never solely an image, but constitutes a familiar space that becomes inscribed in our bodies through the repeated physical contact with this domestic space. The house teaches us to interact with space, and comes to inform the way that human beings understand images of space. Spatial imagery can be conceptualized both as embodied, lived experience and as semiotic sign. The aim is to investigate the idea of a collective image-base, and in what way the universality of these images relates to the individual conditions of each meeting with images of space. The object of study here is also to survey the ways that images of space transgress the borders between bodily experience and abstract sign, between the individually specific and the universal, as well as between actual space and represented space.</p>

The phenomenology of Gaston Bachelard holds that readers, or viewers, relate to spatial imagery through the use of age-old archetypes. These archetypes form a collective image-memory that is employed when reading space. One such image is the house. The house for Bachelard is, however, never solely an image, but constitutes a familiar space that becomes inscribed in our bodies through the repeated physical contact with this domestic space. The house teaches us to interact with space, and comes to inform the way that human beings understand images of space. Spatial imagery can be conceptualized both as embodied, lived experience and as semiotic sign. The aim is to investigate the idea of a collective image-base, and in what way the universality of these images relates to the individual conditions of each meeting with images of space. The object of study here is also to survey the ways that images of space transgress the borders between bodily experience and abstract sign, between the individually specific and the universal, as well as between actual space and represented space.