ABSTRACT
It became apparent from the narrator's analysed experiences and reflections that the problem of the twofold perception of the world as a cosmos governed by the principle of Identity and as a chaos of irreducible Difference is on the whole inseparable from his mode of awareness at the time of the experience and the attitude to the world associated with it. Imagination is, according to a modern definition, 'the power of the mind to consider things which are not present to the senses and to consider that which is not taken to be real'. The fact that it is external reality that serves as a trigger to imagination is an essential point when considering the value of its product. This becomes especially clear when contrasted with the Platonic theory of imagination, which is the paradigmatic conception at the basis of all depreciation of the work of imagination.
