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ORIGINAL EDITION of this important essay by psychology-phenomenology of the imagination.
ONE OF 25 NUMBERED COPIES ON PUR-FIL This is the only paperback edition.

In 1933, a conversation between Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron "was to prove decisive: the chance of an apricot cocktail - according to Castor - or a demi - according to Aron - decided the task that Sartre was to accomplish […] in the field of philosophy. Indeed, it was from this conversation in which the glass served as an example that Jean-Paul Sartre immediately bought a book recommended to him by his friend- la Theory of intuition to phenomenology, of Husserl - that he reads all the German philosopher's work with a passion, and that they exchange posts as
respective jobs: Aron left for Le Havre, while Sartre, with the help of a grant, went to the Institut Français in Berlin to study the "French and the English".Relations between the psychic and the psychological in general. It was there that he met Husserl and, on the basis of all this, wrote the works that make up the first stage of his philosophy, including, in 1940, the very publication of The Imaginary."
The book that Sartre had originally thought of calling Le Monde imaginaire  or Imaginary worldsfollows on from Imagination (1936), which is a kind of critical introduction to The Imaginary which Sartre would later develop by taking over the part rejected by the publisher Alcan.

Also included:  The imaginary - Paris, Alcan, 1936 - original edition never printed on large paper.

Bittoun-Debruyne Nathalie. On the Imaginary: Sartre and Husserl. In: Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études françaises1998, no. 50. pp. 297-310;
The Writings by Sartre, Paris, Gallimard, 1970, p. 78.