The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic - Maurice Godelier

Exploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginaryWhat you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is imagined. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible. In mythology or religion, however, those things that are imagined are never experienced as being imaginary by believers. The realm of the imagined is even more real than the real; it is super-real, surreal.Lévi-Strauss held that "the real, the symbolic and the imaginary"... Zobrazit více