While the sociocultural embeddedness of imagination received the researchers’ attention over the last years, less research was dedicated to the embodied dimension of imaginary processes. Nevertheless, any person engaged in imagination is always also a body. Moreover, there is no clear limit between imagination in thought, and in exploratory external actions. The aim of the present paper is to contribute to the theorization of the embodied dimension of imagination, by drawing on Zittoun, Cerchia and Gillespie’s imaginary loop model. We discuss the notion of here-and-now reality entailed in this model with the help of Schuetz’ notion of provinces of meaning and argue that this definition of the here-and-now allows to use the loop model for the analysis of activities in which the body movements occupy a central place. This argument is sustained by the example of an analysis of aikido practice. This analysis leads us to propose to complete the imaginary loop model with a forth dimension representing the degree of embodiment.

在过去几年中，尽管想象力的社会文化根基受到了研究人员的关注，但很少有研究致力于想象过程的具体体现。然而，任何从事想象的人总是一个身体。而且，在思想上的想象与探索性的外部行为之间没有明确的界限。本文的目的是通过利用Zittoun，Cerchia和Gillespie的假想循环模型，为想象的体现维度的理论化做出贡献。我们借助舒茨（Schuetz）的意义省份概念，讨论了此模型中所涉及的“今世现实”的概念，并指出，“今世现实”的定义允许使用循环模型来分析人类活动。身体运动占据了中心位置。通过对合气道实践进行分析的例子可以证明这一观点。通过这种分析，我们提出了以第四个维度代表实施程度来完成虚拟回路模型的建议。