The Phenomenology Of Psychology "image" Theory,

This thesis introduces Sartre's theory of the image, in this thesis, I analyze and summarize Sartre's theory of image.Sartre's theory of the image mostly aims at Descartes', Leibniz's and Hume's theories of image, at the same time, Sartre criticizes the theories and views of image of the philosophers and psychologists who precede him and coexist with him.Sartre thinks that these metaphysicians' theories of the image can be summarized as followings: the image which has a sensible content, obeys the rules of things and blocks the thought. Therefore, these metaphysicians have not been able to meet two goals required by the theory of image. Everyone who wants to accomplish this task should do such things: he should analyze and distinguish the role psyche plays in the image and the perception; he must reveal the role which the image played in thinking.Sartre critically inherits Husserl's phenomenological method, adopts the method of the experimental psychology and absorbs the inspiration which Heidegger gives him, consequently, he settles the task and achieves such an conclusion:The image is such an activity of the consciousness: the image is an act that aims in its corporeality at an absent or nonexistent object, through a physical or psychic content that is given not as itself but in the capacity of analogical representative of the object aimed at. Both the image and the perception are essential psychic elements, but they do not have the same quality, they come into different syntheses and represent two main irreducible attitudes of consciousness.There is in fact between image and thought no opposition but only the relation of a species to the genus that subsumes it. Thought takes the imaged form when it wants to be intuitive, when it wants to ground its affirmation on the sight of an object. In that case, it tries to make the object appear before it, to see it, or better still to possess it. Such is the relation between image and thought.Moreover, Sartre claims that, both imagination and perception are most impor-...