Political and cultural hegemony of the imaginary

Abstract

From a certain understanding of the social and human sciences, we can think of social and political reality not as something to be rationally managed, but as something humanly understood in the depth that the same species carries in all individual and collective acting and thinking. This puts the focus on the content of this human inventiveness for the interpretation of socio-political realities, but also of the theoretical constructions of these same realities. Thus, human imagination and its archetypal contents are the substance of socio-historical actions as well as the basic postulates of social and political science. Through a symbolic convergence of semantic contents in representative social and political theories, it is possible to observe the anthropological patterns that constitute us as a species. Just as in the interpretation of the meaning of certain historical events that converge in their significant content, it is possible to elucidate the emergence of archaic psychic content. This leads to a theoretical and practical social and political program in which the dynamic equilibrium of the species is given priority.