The Imaginary (Sartre)

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The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination

Cover of the first edition
Author	Jean-Paul Sartre
Original title	L'Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l'imagination
Language	French
Subject	Imagination, Imaginary
Published	1940 (Gallimard, in French) 1948 (Philosophical Library, in English)
Publication place	France
Pages	234 (Routledge edition)
ISBN	0-415-11954-5 (Routledge edition)

The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination (French: L'Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l'imagination), also published under the title The Psychology of the Imagination, is a 1940 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author propounds his concept of the imagination and discusses what the existence of imagination shows about the nature of human consciousness.