Abstract
The power and value of both oneiric and poetic images are revealed in Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority. Gaston Bachelard’s unique form of imagining is revealed through a study of literary and dream images. In this, the writer’s most Jungian-oriented text, he reveals that the depths of images correspond to the depths of the soul and to meditate on these images is to invite an alchemical transformation of the reader’s psyche. Reverie over analysis is the preferred method and is expressed best through slow reading. By gathering images from dozens of writers, primarily French novelists and poets, Bachelard furthers his understanding of both the material and dynamic imaginations, two persuasive inroads to the dreaming and poetic self. Guiding his work is a fundamental assumption that we are beings who are deep; depth is achieved and enjoyed through a particular set of images that he conveys with imaginal dexterity and fresh forms of knowing.
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