Bergson: A neo-Platonic reading of Fichte

On the basis of the lecture that Bergson gave in 1898 on Fichte, the author comments the mediating image by which in 1907, in L'Evolution creatrice, the French philosopher expresses the philosophical intuition of Fichteanism. From this study emerges the fact that Bergson discerned two philosophies in the Fichtean philosophy: an original philosophy, idealist and subjectivist, and an opposite philosophy, mystic, but less original for the reason that it is common to the whole Alexandrian thinking. According to Bergson, these two philosophies characterize two faces of an identical thinking, considering whether in a contracted state of in a relaxed one; in this distinction between a "contracted" Alexandrinism and a "relaxed" Alexandrinism, the author suggests seeing a principle that Bergson employed for interpreting the history of philosophy.