The imagination in the thinking of Paul Ricoeur - Poetic function of the language and transformation of the subject

Alain THOMASSET suggests that Ricoeur's works about the poetics of texts considered as an effect of reading show the transforming power that biblical writings exercise on a subject who has decided to make them his own. He stresses that in the building process of a believing subject, imagination plays a major role. As a matter of fact it is the first place where representations are generated and received. These representations allow the fundamental inspiration of a human being, a creation of existence, and give rise to a new way of being in the world by following Christ.