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Water and Dreams

An Essay on the Imagination of Matter

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Gaston Bachelard, master dreamer of the elements, animates the waters of the soul with his stirring, fluid imagination. With the subtlety of a poet, he ranges from the surface of water with its reflective narcissism to the very depths where water flows into death. Clear waters, deep water, the Charon Complex, water in combination with other elements, maternal waters, water's morality, violent water, water's voice.

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Water and Dreams, Gaston Bachelard, Edith R Farrell

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1983
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Title
Water and Dreams
Subtitle
An Essay on the Imagination of Matter
Pages
213
ISBN10
0911005013
ISBN13
9780911005011
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First published
1942
Original title
ĽEau et les Rêves
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Gaston Bachelard, master dreamer of the elements, animates the waters of the soul with his stirring, fluid imagination. With the subtlety of a poet, he ranges from the surface of water with its reflective narcissism to the very depths where water flows into death. Clear waters, deep water, the Charon Complex, water in combination with other elements, maternal waters, water's morality, violent water, water's voice.