El ser en busca de un rostro

Abstract

In the present article two myths are exemplified: Narcissus and Quetzalcoatl, both as a Freud´s notion of Narcissisim and its connection with cultural processes. The image of our own selves as unique and social beings, it is built upon an imaginary process in its cultural and symbolic proportions, starting from the imaginary models of identification in which humanity builds inside a defined space and time. These models are expressed throw religion, myths, as well as in the cultural mirror that reflects our image. From this scenario a tradition is created and transmitted form generation to generation. In cultures as our, the image they have of themselves for a thousand year production has been broken, fragmentized, going under a syncretism and mixed with the symbolic construction form dominant cultures. Creating a vast non cover space of itself, a constant search of a mirror that reflects an image that may deeply show the true cultural and social face.