OUTLOOK
Our imaginary is created essentially through mimetic processes which also use the images of the imaginary to shape the outside world. Images of the human being are key to our understanding of ourselves. They are irreducible. They arise because we communicate about ourselves and must develop similarities and feelings of belonging with other people. They are the result of complex anthropological processes, in which social and cultural power structures play an important role. Owing to their iconic character, they reduce the complexity of the person and his being-in-the-world to select features and do not create a complete view of the person. There are approximations to the homo absconditus, the human being who cannot fully understand himself (Wulf 2013b). In the Ten Commandments there is therefore talk that the human should not create an image of God and by analogy – today we would say – no image should be made from another human being. Images and mimetic processes are important for our relationship with the world, with other people and with ourselves, Image critic is required in order to escape the power of interpretation of images and in particular images of the human being. The same applies to a critical view of the ideas and images created in the discourses on the human being. We must recognise the importance of images, mimesis and imagination for the development of the imaginary and for the understanding of the human being.
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КРИСТОФ ВУЛЬФ2
МИМЕТИЧЕСКОЕ ТВОРЧЕСТВО ВООБРАЖЕНИЯ
Перевод Евгения Доброва3член редакционной коллегии Aesthetica Universalis, [email protected]
Абстракт
Маленькие дети учатся создавать смысл окружающего их мира через миметические процессы. В начале эти процессы сфокусированы на их родителях, братьях, сестрах и прочих знакомых детям людях. Дети хотят быть во всем им подобными. Ими движет желание стать во всем похожими на своих близких, что будет означать, что дети обретут свою принадлежность в круге этих людей, станут частью их мира. Маленькие дети, как и люди в целом являются существами социальными. Люди в большей степени, чем прочие приматы, являются социальными существами, которые не могут выжить без Другого. В миметических процессах внешний мир