Abstract

ARCE HOCHKOFLER, Fernando. The "pepino" representsa full significant of la paz city carnival's. Revista de Psicologia [online]. 2015, n.13, pp.58-62. ISSN 2223-3032.

The emblematic figure of La Paz City Carnival's , in Bolivia, called the "pepino" has no ethnic or social connotations. Represents the miscegenation and the human generic, the "cholopaceño" while any citizen, the La Paz carnival universalized because it allows to make series and give continuity to the Roman Saturnalia celebrations honoring the fertile land and were led to the beginning of the year, denying the deadly nature of time all-consuming. And just as the peoples of Europe was represented at the carnival by a straw man dressed in rags, who was well effigy of Death which was burned, hanged or buried as a way to throw, out of the village-for then comes the fertility of life; our "pepino" is buried as a ritual way to dismiss the municipality, amid false cries with which it defines its existence to the Mardi Gras carnival. It is then, the signifier of desire carnival and for a metonymic displacement, cunning enjoy without taking charge of one's own desire, Masquerade conscious enjoyment without the identity ofthe subject. Bythe sameturn, you can make reference to the anonymous loverwho leaves the trace of forbidden pleasure that had wanted no trace. So he came to also designate who has no father, who has no identity, which is not entitled to enjoy anonymous except when exercising like buffoon. Therefore, the "pepino" significant went to the foundling, which does not have a symbolic place, the nameless, the humiliated accessing an anonymous identity. It was therefore the wordless, who barely spoke because it was not subject

Keywords : Metaphoricalsignificant; psychoanalysis; name-of-the-father; subject; full signifiant versus common signifiant empty of means.

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