The phenomenology of the imagi-nation in Giovanni Piana

Abstract

One of de subjects most loved by Giovanni Piana was that imagination. Returning to Husserl’s studies on this argument, con-tained in the band XXIII of the Husserliana, Piana introduces an interpretation that tries to intersect phenomenology with other approaches such as that classic psychoanalytic and that of Bachelard. This paper seeks to demonstrate, first that the method with which Piana tried to verify the specific characteristics of the structure of imagination in comparison with other acts of experiences such as perception; On the other hand, once the acts of imagination have been determined by the specific character of "as if" in which they are framed, these are compared with the act of memory and finally a specific analysis of the material of the imagination is carried out, still based on the philosophical proposal of Giovanni Piana