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Tópicos (México)
versión impresa ISSN 0188-6649
Resumen
ESPARZA URZUA, Gustavo Adolfo y JUNCO, Ethel. Individual and Community in Mythical Thought. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2022, n.63, pp.423-445. Epub 15-Ago-2022. ISSN 0188-6649. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v63i0.1851.
In this article we establish that in mythical thought there is, as a natural quality, an expression of universality. Following Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, we show that through the expressive function of myth it is possible to develop an expressive way of thinking or a pre-logical type of knowledge. We then propose an interpretation of Oedipus at Colonus in order to show that (i) it offers a plausible resource to relate the individual and the community, and (ii) that the framework in this tragedy works as a complex sign and symbolic path to delineate a form of expressive relationship through which it is possible to propose the unification of the individual with the community.
Palabras llave : individual; community; crossroads; Cassirer; Sophocles.