It was in the act of reading the simultaneous reception and creation that reading creates that made language real.
It is not about the space a house affords, but about our space, ourselves.īachelard viewed language as a reality and to him this explains why the poetic image carries so much weight. As the author moves round the house and dwelling spaces of the house, he questions all the known ideas and experience showing everything to be subjective.
To Bachelard when a person is born, he is placed in a house and ‘being’ is already a value. His best-known work is The Poetics of Space based on an imaginary house. And without growth, what chance is there to engage the complexity that bounds us?’ (Danielewski 1958:12) ‘He values the imagination because he recognises that understanding without imagination is doctrine without growth. He considered science and poetry to be opposites, but able to converse with each other to create new ways of thinking and this was achieved through the imagination. Originally a professor of Physics, Bachelard moved on to become a philosopher investigating phenomenology, epistemology and psychoanalysis. Rachel Whiteread (b.1963) House 1993 Photograph Sue Omerodīachelard’s The Poetics of Space although beautiful and interesting to read, is difficult to grasp and required a lot of reading around it to gain some comprehension.
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