L'Imagination symbolique

{{Short description|1964 book by French anthropologist Gilbert Durand}}

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L'Imagination symbolique (literally The Symbolic Imagination) is a philosophical anthropology book from French anthropologist Gilbert Durand. The first edition was issued in 1964. Durand reprises his influential concept of the anthropological trajectory, and he proposed a "tactical pedagody of the imaginary."Grataloup, Anne-Lise Brugger (1992) [https://books.google.com/books?id=YFHy4Y1PhnMC&pg=PA31 Au commencement était l'image] p.31

Some passages from the essay are revisited version of Dudans's 1954 publication in SUP.: Initiation philosophique.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YhMuAQAAIAAJ SUP.: Initiation philosophique] (1954) Among the differences, the change in terminology from "cultures apolliniennes" to "régime diurne," and from "cultures dionysiennes" to "régime nocturne"; the earlier terminology followed that of Ruth Benedict and Nietzsche, while the new terminology follows what Durand formulated in 1960 with The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary.