Abstract

PARGAS LOPEZ, Luz Gisella. Transience and permanence of the symbol in the Andean festive imaginary. Revista de Psicologia [online]. 2025, n.33, pp.135-155. ISSN 2223-3032.  https://doi.org/10.53287/xrty1758uf74p.

Based on the results of a field investigation in the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela, an attempt is made to interpret some changes and singularities in the imaginaries of the Andean festival in the female plot, from three coordinates:

a) Anomie. The party as an overflow of human passions within a peaceful geographical environment and great natural beauty of a nation whose population suffers from conditions of social anomie, is understood as the difficult transition from a type of society that is degrading, to another that follows it. with the same continuity, but which has not yet taken shape

b) The symbol. The party is a symbolic event that allows the ineffable to appear, so it is necessary to review the symbolic function in the process of interpreting imaginaries. According to Cassirer, it is proper for man to interpret the thing as soon as it enters into relationship with him, and he does it in different ways (through the sign, the allegory, the symbol). And, on the other hand, more than the meaning, one must wonder about the unattainable meaning; the limit of the human; as a dimension of the anthropos in the process of organizing the world and producing its culture.

c) Temporality. If the festival is a symbolic event, it takes on its own temporality that allows it to subvert the order, breaking with linear historical time and with the sacred-profane binary opposition of culture. Or a temporality of permanent oscillation and conversion in a continuous present.

Keywords : Imaginary; Party; Symbolic; Feminine Time; Plebeian philosophy.

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