Abstract
Numerous texts related In the social and
human sciences insist on the idea that several
aspects of contemporary culture (the media,
psychopathology, art) bear the stamp of a loss
of meaning and reference which some authors
define as a « desymbolization » or with a
similar word, When one studies these lexts
closely one finds out a vast multivariousness
of points of view and above all quite a few
contradictions. This paper insists more
specifically on a research carried out on the
various paths of thought fiable to have started
such contradictions. Its major aim is to stress
the existence and nature of a new approach,
too often imperfectly known, of the concepts
of « meaning » and « reference » which, as
they open new paths of interpretations, enable
one to rest the question of desymbolization on
conceptuel bases that will be more adequate.
References
R. Bastide, Le rêve, la transe et la folie, Paris, Flammarion, 1972.
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