Abstract:
The aim of the present article is to investigate how the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre understood, in his phenomenological psychology of the imagination, the problematic of the "normal unreal" and the "pathological unreal". By psycho-phenomenologically structuring the activity of the imaginative consciousness, we can see that the image (imaginative consciousness) differs radically from perception (perceptive consciousness), but both remain intentional consciousness. In this context, it is necessary to ask the following question: if all imaginative consciousness is intentional consciousness (which also means that it is self-consciousness), how can we frame hallucinatory experiences?
Keywords:
Phenomenology; Psychopathology; Imagination; Consciousness