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Philosophica Critica
medzinárodný vedecký filozofický časopis

VRBATA, A.: Primacy of the Image. From Einbildungskraft to Mythological Unconscious​

Philosophica Critica, vol. 3, 2017, no. 2, ISSN 1339-8970, pp. 35–52
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Publication date: December 15, 2017
In more than two-thousand-years lasting western philosophical tra-dition the role of the image and its epistemological status were quite small and irrelevant. It was during Renaissance and within 18th-century philosophy (Kant’s Einbildungskraft) when situation started to change and image was progressively freed from the tute-lage of reason. Kant’s Einbildungskraft introduced new field within human mind transcendent to human subject and later there was a large conceptual field of the unconscious with its implications in other areas. Since the early 20th century epistemological status of image changed even more. This article attempts not only to review this development but also to examine revolutionization of the epis-temological status of “imagined reality”, especially new concepts arising from such perspective in the course of last fifty years.​
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Key words: Reality – Image – Unconscious – Myth – Psyche

​DOI: 10.17846/PC.2019.3.2.35-52
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