Bachelard’s reverie theory needs both linguistic and historical correction.

Evidence

Such an interpretation would eventually have to come to terms with the immensely influential investigations of Bachelard into the role of sensory “rêverie,” correcting them theoretically on the one hand by an account of the relationship between such raw material and the inner dialectics of literary language itself, and on the other by a more genuinely historical understanding of “rêverie” as a psychic development of the middle-class world. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 658

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what does ‘more genuinely historical understanding of rêverie as a psychic development of the middle-class world’ actually entail, concretely?
• XREF: connects to: Marxist analysis needs both material grounding and historical specificity to avoid twin errors
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marxist analysis needs both material grounding and historical specificity to avoid twin errors

Broader Connections

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