L’IMAGINAIRE COMME MÉDIATION DU RÉEL : PHANTASIA, MÉMOIRE ET INVENTION DANS LA LITTÉRATURE ALGÉRIENNE FRANCOPHONE
THE IMAGINARY AS A MEDIATION OF REALITY: PHANTASIA, MEMORY AND INVENTION IN FRENCH-LANGUAGE ALGERIAN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the function of imagination as a mediation of reality in French-language Algerian literature through the concept of phantasia. Drawing on philosophical and phenomenological approaches (Plato, Aristotle, Husserl, Richir), the study analyzes how imagination operates as a cognitive and creative faculty that reshapes lived experience and historical memory. Through a comparative reading of Mouloud Feraoun, Mohammed Dib, and Yasmina Khadra, the paper shows that imagination is not an escape from reality but a transformative force that preserves memory, reconfigures trauma, and produces symbolic meaning. Phantasia appears as a dynamic continuum linking perception, memory, and invention, allowing literature to articulate identity and history in renewed narrative forms.

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