The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic

by Maurice Godelier

Book Overview

Exploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginary

What you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is imagined. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible. In mythology or religion, however, those things that are imagined are never experienced as being imaginary by believers. The realm of the imagined is even more real than the real; it is super-real, surreal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786637707
• ISBN13: 9781786637703
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.2"