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The Imaginary

About: The Imaginary is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4807 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87663 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, a reading of the book Santiago en EURE, 1970/2000, reflects on the urban imaginaries of Santiago presented over the last thirty years, focusing on three principal imaginary narratives for the city of Santiago: one that persists and resists over time, the imaginary of city/country, and two others that through their incomplete metamorphosis are never resolved by the inhabitants of the city.
Abstract: From a reading, between the lines, of the book Santiago en EURE. Huellas de una metamorfosis metropolitana: 1970/2000, this article reflects on the urban imaginaries of Santiago presented over the last thirty years. Beyond the declared objectives and conceptual frameworks of the authors, it can be noted that aspects of these urban imaginaries filter into and are expressed in each of the selected texts. The analysis focuses on three principal imaginary narratives for the city of Santiago: one that persists and resists over time, the imaginary of city/country, and two others that through their incomplete metamorphosis are never resolved by the inhabitants of the city: the imaginary of the integrated city/fractured city, and the imaginary of the village city/world city.

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TL;DR: The authors discuss the political and economic conditions under which GIs have attracted new interest from a diverse group of international actors and suggest that a certain social imaginary of a harmonious community with a naturalized relationship to a territory and its resources is fostered by the use of GIs.
Abstract: We begin by explaining what a geographical indication (GI) is, by situating the term historically and explaining the way it differs in important ways from other forms of intellectual property (IP). We then discuss the political and economic conditions under which GIs have attracted new interest from a diverse group of international actors. We suggest that a certain ‘social imaginary’ (Castoriadis 1987, 1997; Gaonkar 2002; Maza 2005; Taylor 2004; Touraine 1981; Wagner 2012; Zavela 1992) of a harmonious community with a naturalized relationship to a territory and its resources is fostered by the use of GIs. Those who are encouraged to develop GIs come to understand this as a strategy of legitimation, both for claiming economic revenues and for asserting cultural identity. These rhetorical forms are neither true, nor necessarily false, we suggest, but the deployment of such strategies may bring benefits in some regions while undermining sustainable development objectives in others. We show how such marketing strategies may have unintended social consequences and could give rise to unexpected social disputes, as well as contests over the proper scale for marking the provenance of goods described in cultural terms. While holding social appeal for framing development aspirations in some regions, this social imaginary obscures important social complexities in contexts where tradition and indigeneity are contested terms through which different social groups attempt to maintain or to assert gains in status, income and opportunity, as the following chapter, focused on South African rooibos, will attest.

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TL;DR: The authors argue that the approaches of Castoriadis and Touraine can inform a theoretical understanding of the history and current resonance of this public sphere of performance and highlight the role of fantasy, images, individualism, and other non-rational factors in late modern public life.
Abstract: Neither Habermas nor his communitarian and poststructuralist critics sufficiently explore the non-linguistic, playful, and performative dimensions of contemporary public spheres. I argue that the approaches of Castoriadis and Touraine can inform a theoretical understanding of the history and current resonance of this public sphere of performance. Their concepts of the social imaginary, the autonomous society, and subjectivation highlight the role of fantasy, images, individualism, and other non-rational factors in late modern public life.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the psychotherapeutic treatment of a 14-year-old boy who suffered from mild Asperger's syndrome, who had a multiplicity of imaginary friends, which protected him from catastrophic feelings of loneliness and deadness.
Abstract: In this paper I shall describe the psychotherapeutic treatment of a 14-year-old boy, who suffered from mild Asperger's syndrome. This adolescent had a multiplicity of imaginary friends, which protected him from catastrophic feelings of loneliness and deadness, but at the same time interfered with the possibility of establishing meaningful relations with human beings. As the relationship with the therapist gradually gained the vitality and importance originally invested in his parallel fantasy world, the imaginary companions simultaneously faded away. His imagination then became more closely connected to inner reality and to creative processes. The psychoanalytic literature on imaginary companions is reviewed, and it is suggested that the concept of a self-protective device could be usefully applied to understanding the functions that this fantasy performed for the patient. Dans cet article, l'auteur decrit le traitement psychotherapeutique d'un garcon de 14 ans qui presentait une forme attenuee du syndrom...

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023563
20221,296
2021145
2020180
2019178
2018199