Poetry and the anthropologyc structures on Gilbert Durand imaginary: reading of a Ferreira Gullar poem

Abstract

Facing the failure of the great explicative systems guided by reason (Aristotelian or Cartesian) that guided the Modernity, from the second half of the twentieth century, many theories arose with the purpose of searching for a positive reevaluation of the image, investigating and systemizing the human, individual and collective, imaginary, formerly excluded from the knowledge access possibilities. The figurative structuralism of Gilbert Durand, on this context, brings to the intellectual scenery a consistent perspective, instigate and profitable to the imaginary studies. On this article, we intend to introduce some of the assumptions on Gilbert Durand theory, as well as a general panorama of the “imaginary anthropology structures”. Furthermore, from the reading of a Ferreira Gullar poem according to Durandian theory, we expose some of the possibilities that the imaginary investigation offers to literary critique.

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DOI: http:/dx.doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2017.25384