The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.