The endless interiority of the night

Abstract

The night is a complex subject of study due to the many aspects with which it presents itself and the multiple identity that places it both outside and inside the individual. Objective event and inner evidence offers sensory knowledge and emotional and spiritual resonances at the same time. The dark space has always inspired literature and the arts, but has long been neglected by geography. This indifference seems motivated by having thought of the night as an external, objective phenomenon, neglecting its interiority and the spiritual resonances it arouses. The emphasis that the discipline places on the gaze did not help the subject, since its fundamental method is direct observation, based on the view that the night shields. The indifference to the theme is also justified by the rationalist disciplinary orientations of the past. The argument has been highlighted from the last years of twentieth century with the affirmation of cultural and emotional geography. It is a vision that enhances the poetics and interior values transmitted by the night. It is the latter that make the night a topic of particular interest.

Keywords: Night, identity, interiority, cultural and emotional geography, landscape, colors.