('The Symbolic Imagination') is a philosophical anthropology book from French anthropologist Gilbert Durand. The first edition was issued in 1964. Durand reprises his influential concept of the anthropological trajectory, and he proposed a "tactical pedagody of the imaginary."Grataloup, Anne-Lise Brugger (1992) Au commencement était l'image p.31
Some passages from the essay are revisited version of Dudans's 1954 publication in SUP.: Initiation philosophique.SUP.: Initiation philosophique (1954) Among the differences, the change in terminology from "cultures apolliniennes" to "régime diurne," and from "cultures dionysiennes" to "régime nocturne"; the earlier terminology followed that of Ruth Benedict and Nietzsche, while the new terminology follows what Durand formulated in 1960 with The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary.
Editions and translations 1970 象徴の想像力 / Shōchō no sōzōryoku, translated by Akira Unami 1971 La imaginación simbólica, published by Amorrortu Editores 1999 L'immaginazione simbolica, translated by Anna Chiara Peduzzi 1988 A imaginação simbólica 1998 Sembolik imgelem, Translated by Ayşe MERAL
See also Collective unconscious Ernst Cassirer (1944) An essay on man Imaginary (sociology)
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