La repercusión como fundamento de la actividad imaginaria según Paul Ricœur

Abstract

In Paul Ricœur´s thought, freedom goes always with imagination. In this sense, Imagination is defined as the task of mediating between the tensions that man lives as a result of his inherent disproportion between the fi nite and the infinite. This task is based on a feature of the world that enables the operation of the imagination. That implies a pre-refl exive connection between the human interiority and the world of the life. That is the resounding phenomenon of the “repercussion” (retentissement) which is a direct influence to Ricœur that comes from Gaston Bachelard and Eugène Minkoswski. The focus of this paper is to uncover the heritage of this phenomenon -only partially studied in Ricœur´s philosophy- in the light of the evolution of the imaginative function.