Product Description : The Psychoanalysis of Fire Bachelard is neither a selfconfessed and tortured atheist like Satre nor like Chardin a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science But within the French context he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudoreligious force without taking a stand on religion To define him as briefly as possible he is a philosopher with a professional training in the sciences who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science the poetic imagination JG Weightman The New York Times Review of Books ( it is an used product)