El conocimiento simbólico y el mito del fuego en las culturas antiguas. Aportes desde la imaginación creadora de Gastón Bachelard

Abstract

The creative imagination of Bachelard has been one of the deepest and most original contributions to the philosophy of the XX century. His work has been recollected in works related to the psychoanalysis of the elements: water, air, earth and fire. These four elements are present and manifested in the psyche was poetic images of the substances and cosmic forces, principle of the primitive cosmogonies, the placement of men in the cosmos. In this present work we have focused in the element fire given its mystic feature and influence it has had in the primitive symbolism. Illuminated by fire, Bachelard assures that the symbol is charged with history and that it is given in the conjunction of multiple traditions. The flame of the fire would compel man to imagine, to dream. Every dreamer of the flame finds himself in a state of original dream. The symbol of fire would transport man not only to his own past, which is not his own, but also to the past of the first fires of the world.