Henry Corbin and the Imaginal
A Look at the Concept and Function of the Creative Imagination in Iranian Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4809972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ali Shariat (0000-0002-6133-1554, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 156 |
| Pages | 83-114 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/039219219103915605 |
| OpenAlex | W1983523354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The phenomenological term "imaginal" was coined and introduced into the French language by Henry Corbin (1903-1978). Throughout his work, Corbin used the "imaginal" as his fundamental concept, as the very foundation of a Weltanschauung. Etymolo-gically, this new term was derived from the Latin phrase mundus imaginalis. As for its meaning, it is synonymous with several Persian and Arabic technical terms, such as alam al-mithal (the world of images, archetypical ideas), malakut (the subtle world of the souls), barzakh (interworld), hurqalya (the world of the celestial Earth, of celestial corporeality), na-koja-abad (the land of nowhere). These technical terms taken from theosophical literature have a meaning very close to that of the term "imaginal." They translate contemplative experience arising from the theophanic imagination or agent imagination (imaginatio vera). From the point of view of location, they designate the qualitative space of this imagination (mundus imaginalis
Aesthetics · Biology · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |