Water and dreams

Translation of "L'eau et les rêves" (1942). Hardcover, xi + 312 pp., including endnotes, author/title index, and subject index. From the publisher: "Gaston Bachelard, master dreamer of the elements, animates the waters of the soul with his stirring, fluid imagination. With the subtlety of a poet, he ranges from the surface of water with its reflective narcissism to the very depths where water flows into death. Clear waters, deep water, the Charon Complex, water in combination with other elements, maternal waters, water's morality, violent water, water's voice. The material imagination of water allows us to de-objectify objects and deform forms enabling us to dream and perceive the flow of soul in the world." Contents: Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Imagination and Matter 1. Clear waters, Springtime Waters and Running Waters; The Objective Conditions for Narcissism; Amorous Waters 2. Deep Waters—Dormant Waters—Dead Waters; "Heavy Waters" in Edgar Allan Poe's Reverie 3. The Charon Complex; The Ophelia Complex 4. Water in Combination with Other Elements 5. Maternal Water and Feminine Water 6. Purity and Purification; Water's Morality 7. The Supremacy of Fresh Water 8. Violent Water Conclusion: Water's Voice