{"id":2513,"date":"2012-12-16T05:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2023-08-04T06:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:30:41","slug":"poetics-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/poetics-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"poetics of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/gaston-bachelard-poetics-of-space.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaston Bachelard\u00a0 <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Poetics<\/strong> <strong>of<\/strong> <strong>Space<\/strong> summary and review<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In &#8220;The Poetics of Space&#8221; Bachelard introduces his concept of topoanlysis, which he defines as the systematic psychological studying of the sites of our intimate lives. The house, the most intimate of all spaces, &#8220;protects the daydreamer&#8221; and therefore understanding the house is for Bachelard a way to understand the soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I read the first chapter of Gaston Bachelard&#8217;s Poetics of Space on Friday. The following morning I woke up with tangled memories of dreams about houses and places I have never been. Of course, I don&#8217;t remember most of the sites, having neglected to write them down immediately.<\/p>\n<p>But I remember one dream thread &#8211; a recurring dream, but always different. &#8220;Car in water.&#8221; I used to dream a lot that I was driving a car into water, backing into water, getting swept away by water while in my car or in someone else&#8217;s car. In one dream from long ago, my grandfather was in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning&#8217;s dream: S was driving, his brother was in the front passenger seat, I was in the back seat. We were driving on hilly roads where water was coursing down the asphalt in sheets. At the bottom of a hill, a puddle opened up into a lake. Soon the car was floating, but still navigable, like a boat. It was ominous, but I wasn&#8217;t overly alarmed. S navigated skillfully closer to the shore and I felt the car gain traction and start to move up out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The early house of my childhood was a suburban single-story ranch house with no basement. There may have been an attic, but I don&#8217;t recall going up there. It wasn&#8217;t that intriguing as far as dream life. I guess I could apply topoanalysis to the intimate space of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>I did have a vivid dream about a cabinet once. Will have to carry on to the chapter about drawers, chests, and wardrobes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaston Bachelard\u00a0 The Poetics of Space summary and review In &#8220;The Poetics of Space&#8221; Bachelard introduces his concept of topoanlysis, which he defines as the systematic psychological studying of the sites of our intimate&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12738,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/12738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}