Nissonologie ou science des îles

Auteur :
MOLES, A. A.

Description :
This paper proposes a psychological approach to the study of a particular type of space. Islands offer a particularly good illustration of those essential relationships between the behaviour of living beings and the environments in which they reside. The study combines a phenomenological analysis of behaviour on the one hand with a psychoanalytical study of spatial experience along lines suggested by Jung and Bachelard on the other. It suggests that the particular geographic forms within which one lives necessarily imply a particular image of the world which, in turn, valorizes positively or negatively certain topological structuration of that world. Eventually this kind of research could yield a kind of listing of psychological traits for islands based on actual human and social needs.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
L'espace géographique Paris, 1982, vol. 11, n°. 4, p. 281-289, Références bibliographiques : 19 réf.

Date :
1982