Resumen

PALAZON MAYORAL, María Rosa  y  BALCARCEL ORDONEZ, José Luis. El símbolo, la parte filosófica del mythos. En-clav. pen [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.15, pp.111-121. ISSN 2594-1100.

The vital impulse is creative and community. The literature expresses this impulse, and reconstructs the movements that stop and destroy it, sharpened today. Gaston Bachelard, Wünenburger and the hermeneutist Paul Ricoeur adhere to the current philosophical tendency to return to the Mythos for demythologize them: to reflect on their possible messages. Bachelard works "water" as a source of life and death. We exemplified joining texts apart: Los ríos profundos by Jose Maria Arguedas and Marguerite Yourcenar's "La sonrisa de Marko" in the passage from the casuistic and individual to the general and abstract. These pages are fueled by Ricoeur's statement: the symbol makes thinking and has been in the liminar zone in the origins of Philosophy.

Palabras llave : Current philosophy; myths; symbols; demythologize; literature.