Marc Richir (1943–)

Abstract

Richir describes the vitality involved in creating and perceiving a work of art. Its vitality is maintained by phantasy (in the Greek sense of phantasia), which differs from a clear, determined, and repeatable mental picture of imagination or perception. He adopts the characteristics of phantasy that edmund husserl worked out in Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung. Zur Phänomenologie der anschaulichen Vergegenwärtigungen (1898–1925), but, distinguishing it from imagination, he insists on its special mode of time and lack of intentionality. The time of phantasy does not concede priority to the moments of present time on which their protentions and retentions will depend.