IMAGINAIRES ENTRE FOI ET JEU. HUMOUR ET IRONIE : LE DOUBLE JEU DE L’IMAGINAIRE
IMAGINERY BETWEEN FAITH AND GAME. HUMOR AND IRONY: THE DOUBLE GAME OF THE IMAGINARY

Summary/Abstract: Humor and irony are installed in any enunciation process when the enunciator wants to introduce a second intentionality of distancing with regard to the proper content. Is their use in the field of imaginary productions self-evident? On the one hand, the imaginary, in the aesthetic sense, is supposed to arouse an adhesion, a pleasure, present in the reverie (in the sense of G. Bachelard), which would culminate in religious belief, incompatible with humor and irony. But on the other hand, as regards all fictional narrative, like the myth, it can open up to a "free game", which can go as far as deconstruction or a mise en abyme, as in several contemporary literary schools. The bottom line would not be, in the end, to define a good use of humor and irony, which always risk depoetizing the works of the imagination.

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