La dimension imaginaire du réel dans la philosophie de Husserl

The subject of this study is Husserl s conception of imagination and its essential link with a radical subversion of the common notion of reality. One of Husserl s remarkable daring ideas is his definition of the image as an intuition, namely, capable of filling our meaning-intentions. Thus is revealed a fundamental imaginary field which is not the simple product of my imagination, but a certain mode of presence of the objects themselves: vacillating or floating presence. This thesis leads to a revolution in our conception of reality. Presence and Being themselves need to be redefined in order to incorporate a dimension of ubiquity and sensible diffraction. Husserl precisely invites us to distrust the alleged implacability of reality and refuses to consider the latter as an In-itself . He intends to reveal the hidden and transcendental dimension of the world but he also shows that these depths are the Realm of the Mothers : there reign sketches (Abschattungen), analogies, phantom