Del inconsciente hacia la función simbólica: la originalidad del aporte freudiano frente el debate individuo sociedad

Carlos Piñones-Rivera; Rodrigo Galdames-del Solar; Miguel Angel Mansilla

From the unconscious to the symbolic function: the originality of Freud's contribution to the individual-society debate

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Carlos Piñones-Rivera Universidad Arturo Prat, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4771-3345
Rodrigo Galdames-del Solar Universidad de Tarapacá, Centro de Atención y Actividades Prácticas de Psicología http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4835-5305
Miguel Angel Mansilla Universidad Arturo Prat, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-0787

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The relation between individual and society has been a main topic across the history of social sciences. The aim of this paper is to show the originality of Sigmund Freud's ideas about the topic, through a comparative analysis with the approaches of the socio-anthropological currents of the school of Culture and Personality (Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ralph Linton) and of French Sociology (Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss and Claude Lévi-Strauss). Our research was based on a bibliographical analysis of some key socio-anthropological texts on this debate, as well as the relevant Freudian production. The interpretation of the Freudian material was organized according to three topics: a) the affirmation of the symbolic determination of symptoms, b) the methodological erasure of the individual society distinction, and c) the theorization of a mythical, transindividual and transhistorical efficacy. We conclude by emphasizing the contributions of Freud's thought to the discussion: the affirmation of symbolic determination offers the conditions for overcoming the externality relation between the pole of the individual and that of society, and the consequent rejection of a specular relationship between the two.

From the unconscious to the symbolic function: the originality of Freud's contribution to the individual-society debate

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