Abstract

. Massonet proposes to study the way in which the reception of phenomenology in France, from 1930 onwards, collaborates with the formation of a philosophical spirit committed to rigorous study around the imagination, the imaginary and the theory of the image. In this way, the author reviews the main contributions of thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henry Corbin, Gaston Bachelard and Roger Caillois, noting that the approach of a phenomenology of the imaginary necessarily leads to reflections on categories such as the magical, nothingness (néant), the intersubjective world and melancholy.