An inquiry into an imaginal landscape

Abstract

This thesis describes an inquiry taken into the nature and genesis of landscapes experienced imaginally. The inquiry proceeds by introspection, by art making, and by exploring related writings. The terms pre-conceptual and pre-imaginal are used to refer to an unknowable dimension from which the conceptual and the imaginal rise, and attempts are made to confirm the conceptual and the imaginal as expressions and effects of this dimension. The possibilities of a continual interplay between the imaginal and the pre-imaginal in the inner life of writers and artists are explored.

Date of Award	2001
Original language	English