phantasia logistike Draft
CONCEPT
From Aristotelian psychology: the rational faculty of the imagination that combines and recombines sensory images stored in memory to produce new composite mental pictures.
Why It Matters for the Hypnerotomachia
Poliphilo's dream journey can be read as an exercise in phantasia logistike — the systematic combination of architectural, natural, and mythological images into new composite visions.
Why It Matters in Scholarship
This Aristotelian framework explains why the HP's architecture feels both familiar and impossible: it is built from real classical elements recombined through the 'phantastic' faculty.
Review Status / Provenance
Draft
- Source method: LLM_ASSISTED
- Confidence: MEDIUM