Do imaginário ao material: a geograficidade nas profundezas da terra

Abstract

The present dissertation aimed to understand the universe of miningmetallurgical practice sand the psychic atmosphere in which telluric workers are immersed - miners, blacksmiths, and all demiurges who deal with terrestrial matter – creating themselves as they create the world. The research takes place theoretically and is based on the work of Gaston Bachelard, in the two routes that it occupies, both in the poetic essays, and in its epistemology, especially in the concepts of creative imagination, provocation and matter, presented throughout the essays Bachelardians, it ends up by assigning to this research a character of revision of the society-nature relation, translated here by the two-dimensional of "man-universe", expressed in the daily confrontation between man and matter and consequently access to new research fronts to understand the existential character of work for man. In order to analyze this situation, we risk the reckless reign of Gaston Bachelard, in an attempt to understand a mentality present in archaic myths and images, but present in modern man through the cosmos of the four elements: Fire, Air, Water and especially the last physical and philosophical dwelling place of man, the Earth.