L’eredità di Bachelard nella teoria ricœuriana della metafora. Per una teoria intersoggettiva della creazione metaforica

Abstract

This article investigates the influence of Gaston Bachelard’s philosophy of imagination on Paul Ricœur’s Rule of metaphor, with a focus on the intersubjective and epistemological dimensions of metaphorical creation. While Bachelard conceives the poetic image as an ontological rooting of the subject in the world and as a reverberation (retentissement) of archetypal experiences, Ricœur reinterprets these notions within a hermeneutic and linguistic framework. By reading Bachelard through the lens of Ricœur’s 1975 course on imagination, the paper argues that Bachelard’s concepts of novelty and resonance become, in Ricœur, the premises for theorizing metaphorical reference as a productive, intersubjective process. Drawing on Max Black’s and Donald Schön’s models of scientific theorization, Ricœur’s theory of metaphor appears as a form of knowledge that both generates new meanings and demands interpretative participation from its receivers. The study thus reconsiders Ricœur’s hermeneutics in light of a partial, pragmatic conception of interpretation, where the construction of metaphorical meaning coincides with a communicative act that involves author and reader alike.