| Bricolage: | The task of a bricoleur is to take the leftovers from the day and to shape them into new figures within a new setting. The dream serves two principles, love and death. The bricoleur, who is in the service of the death instinct, "scavenges and forages for day residues, removing more and more empirical trash ... out of life"; the love instinct fuses and shapes the junk into a material for soul-making. "Imagination works by deforming and forming at one and the same moment [James Hillman]." Bachelard, too, speaks of the deformative activities of imagination. Something in the psyche seems to want to be and yet to resist being twisted into unnatural monstrous shapes. --Robert Avens |
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| Play is the supreme bricoluer of frail transient constructions, like a caddis worm's case or a magpie's nest in nature. Its metamessages are composed of a potpourri of apparently incongruous elements: products of both hemispheres are juxtaposed and intermingled. --Victor Turner |
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