Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic
Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic Exploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginaryWhat you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is…
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Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic
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. In mythology or religion, however, those things that are imagined are never experienced as being imaginary by believers. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible.
Maurice Godelier demonstrates the contrary: that the real is not separate from the symbolic and the imaginary. The realm of the imagined is even more real than the real; it is super-real, surreal.L vi-Strauss held that "the real, the symbolic and the imaginary" are three separate orders. For instance, for a portion of humanity, rituals and sacred objects and places attest to the reality and therefore the truth that God, gods or spirits exist.
The symbolic enables people to signify what they think and do, encompassing
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