The imagined, the imaginary and the symbolic /

"Exploring the close relationship between the real, the symbolic and imaginary Lévi-Strauss held that 'the real, the symbolic and the imaginary' are three separate orders. Maurice Godelier demonstrates the contrary: the real is not separate from the symbolic and the imaginary. Godelie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godelier, Maurice (Author)
Other Authors: Scott, Nora (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:In English, translated from the original French.
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2020.
Edition:English-language edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Concerning a few invariants
  • Consciousness and the mind
  • Language and the mind
  • The symbolic function
  • What is imagining?
  • What is play?
  • Art, or from the imagined imaginary to the materialised imaginary
  • Concerning the religious imaginary
  • The imaginary of political-religious systems
  • Conclusion: And so/what is the real?