GILBERT DURAND. IMAGINEA SIMBOLICĂ – EPIFANIA UNUI MISTER
Gilbert Durand. The Symbolic Image – the Epiphany of a Mystery

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on some pages of ―The anthropological structures of the imaginary‖ in which Gilbert Durand discusses about the nature of the symbolic image. It is about, mainly, a phenomenology of the imaginary anchored in the anthropological resources that conceives the myth and the imaginary horizon as constitutive elements of the human being. When the conscience refers itself to absent objects, these are represented as images, symbolic signs or epiphanies of the unspeakable. The symbol is a representation which brings into sight a secrete meaning; therefore, although absent and invisible, it is the epiphany of a mystery. In the religious field, organized in a vast tradition, the eschatological symbols propose a new dialectics, a universal theophany.

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