Death and symbolization in prehistory and psychoanalysis
Gibeault, Alain
Death and symbolization in prehistory and psychoanalysis - 2019.
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Prehistoric burials bear witness to human culture and to an effort to transform instinct, which, as part of a fight against distress, both conceals and displays annihilation and death through the endless creation of various substitutes. There is also an aesthetic pleasure in the figuration of life, to fight against anxiety when facing the mystery of death. Funeral rites participate in this symbolizing activity and show the will of a society to re-enact in every death the founding myth of the community—the question of origins and the afterlife.
Death and symbolization in prehistory and psychoanalysis - 2019.
89
Prehistoric burials bear witness to human culture and to an effort to transform instinct, which, as part of a fight against distress, both conceals and displays annihilation and death through the endless creation of various substitutes. There is also an aesthetic pleasure in the figuration of life, to fight against anxiety when facing the mystery of death. Funeral rites participate in this symbolizing activity and show the will of a society to re-enact in every death the founding myth of the community—the question of origins and the afterlife.
Réseaux sociaux