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The tragic, the baroque, and the grotesque are forms of imagination that express the human condition: their ambivalence and disquiet, their imbalance and vertigo, and the enigma and labyrinth constituting them. Given that life no longer has its foundation on solid ground, familiar territory, and stable identity, these forms of imagination express a life that knows no rest. The tragic, the baroque, and the grotesque are opposite figures to the idea of totalization of existence, which means that they are all contrary to the idea of human perfection and harmony. As figures expressing our fragmentary, marginal, mundane, and profane condition, they also expose the viscous, sinuous, unstable, and labyrinthine nature of this condition.