2018/11/20 by Paolo Spinicci, Spinicci, Paolo
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Educational and Social Studies #Imagination #Italian Literature and Culture #Phenomenology #Social Representations and Identity #Theory of Faculties
paper · pdf · doi:10.6093/1593-7178/5913
openalex publication_date 2018/11/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07
The aim of this paper is to focus on a particular subject – imagination – in order to set limits and to underscore the validity of a phenomenological understanding of our experience. Imagination is, first of all, a general heading under which we comprehend a range of psychological faculties, whose adaptive meaning (still poorly understood) deserve to be analyzed from a naturalistic point of view. Under the same heading we are used to understand a variety of social and individual activities, of playful gestures and utterances, which belong to the realm of meaning and which deserve to be analyzed and clarified from a descriptive point of view. Phenomenology, as a description of the meaning of our personal experience, has here its possible field of application.