The Fabulous Imagination. On Montaigne´s Essays

Sobre el libro The Fabulous Imagination. On Montaigne´s Essays de Lawrence D. Kritzman publicado por Columbia al 2012:

Michel de Montaigne´s (1533-1592) Essais was a profound study of human subjectivity. More than three hundred years before the advent of psychoanalysis, Montaigne embarked on a remarkable quest to see and imagine the self from a variety of vantages. Through the questions How shall I live? How can I know myself? he explored the significance of monsters, nightmares, and traumatic memories; the fear of impotence; the fragility of gender; and the act of anticipating and coping with death.
In this book, Lawrence D. Kritzman traces Montaigne´s development of the Western concept of the self. For Montaigne, imagination lies at the core of an internal universe that influences both the body and the mind. Imagination is essential to human experience. Although Montaigne recognized that the imagination can confuse the individual, "the fabulous imagination" can be curative, enabling the mind´s "I" to sustain itself in the face of hardship.