About the book: 1991 / The book of the most original French thinker and culturologist Gaston Bachelard, written in 1937, became an innovation in the psychoanalytic tradition, because the subject of Bachelard's analysis was the phenomenon of fire and only then - those ideas and complexes that fire evokes in the human psyche. Bachelard considers fire not only as a natural phenomenon, but also as a sociocultural phenomenon. Fire for him is one of the universal principles of explanation of the world, the key to understanding many things and phenomena.