: une expérience herméneutique existentielle ?

Erick Jean-Daniel Singaïny

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When we read a text, we are sometimes constantly stopped in our tracks, not by disinterest as Roland Barthes says, but by the “flood of ideas, associations” and so on. Our reading can be described as “floating.” Does this have anything to do with “floating attention” the technical rule familiar to psychoanalysts? In “floating” reading, the reader is not looking for the meaning intended by the author; it is his imaginative faculty that takes him out of his calculating cogito in order to create meaning for himself. It is therefore an existential hermeneutical experience that brings the reader face to face with the things of the spirit, that natural human call to verticality or transcendence. Nishida Kitarō’s philosophy of basho (place) supports this argument.