The Imaginary of the Fantastic Inventio

鑑於人類意識演化歷史之異同，學院派別之偏見，理論之固執和外國語言文學認知之不足，為幻奇文學下定義變得愈來愈棘手和「幻奇」。過往定義幻奇問題之中心在於對幻奇想像和文學性的忽視。然而來自不同文化的幻奇故事共同描述未知現象如龍、鬼、變形等母題引向假設幻奇想像有普遍的根源。因此，為了便於進一步探討幻奇的想像，在此先提出對於此文類權宜之定義：相關於對未知虛幻想像詩學化之說故事創作。對於幻奇創作之虛幻想像徹底的研究，即詩學之想像創造部份，將揭示神話創作之精髓，一如通往集體潛意識之門，因此也通往了柏拉圖太極初變(chôra)的未知原型。探討虛幻想像之前必須先闡明虛幻想像的定義。幻奇創作對未知虛幻想像之普遍根源將透過潛意識三層面來作深入探究：來自潛意識古代記憶和夢與宇宙同一性，四大元素之幻想與變形，幻奇說故事與幻奇想像。文學之虛幻想像理論將闡明幻奇文學對未知之想像，即其詩學之想像創造。

關鍵字

幻奇文學；奇幻；虛幻想像；文學想像；詩學；虛構創造；榮格；巴什拉；都宏

並列摘要

In view of the historical evolution of human consciousness, sectarianism of academic disciplines, bigotry in theories and incompetence in foreign languages and literatures, defining fantastic literature is becoming all the more delicate and ”fantastic.” The problematic crux resides in a general ignorance of the fantastic imagination and littérarité or literariness. However, the evidence that fantastic stories from different cultures feature homogeneity in representing the unknown phenomena such as dragons, ghosts and metamorphoses invites a hypothesis of a universal origin in the fantastic imagination. Accordingly, for the facilitation of further exploring the imagination of the fantastic, a makeshift definition of the genre is hence proposed: the poeticized storytelling apropos of the imaginary of the unknown. A thorough investigation of the imaginary, viz. the poetic inventio, in fantastic creation will thus reveal the quintessence of mythopoeia as a door open to the realm of the collective unconscious and thus the unknown archetype of Platonic chôra. An exploration of the imaginary of the fantastic necessitates a review of the definitions of the term imaginary. The imaginary of the unknown as the universal root of fantastic creation will be further investigated from the triple stratification of the unconscious: Archaic memory and dream from the collective unconscious and unus mundus, the reverie of the four elements and metamorphosis, and the fantastic storytelling and la fantastique. The fantastic imagination of the unknown as the inventio of poetics will be brought to light by the approach of the literary imaginary.