Figure di mitopoiesi

Abstract

Figure is a form which contains an inference, a consolidated metaphorical construction, a fragment of narration which can be inserted in different narrations and speculations therefore linking them together, creating units of meaning and increasing the phenomenon called intertextuality. The lack of attention to figural thinking reinforces the trend to personify and render objective mythologems which generate obsessions, such as the fear of strangers or ecological catastrophe; instead, the original roots of these symbolic productions should be retraced in the deep otherness which inhabits the bottom of our psyche. What is lacking in the post-modern thought, as well as in its pedagogy, is both a literature and a mythology; this is not due to the fact that we lack original sources (books, writings), but to the fact that we are loosing the consciousness and the habit to use them according to a myhtopoeic and figural way. It is necessary to rediscover the meaning of telling and of self-telling as the basis of a way to learn built upon the value of understanding (instead than explaining), therefore pulling out from the narrations those figures which enable us to link the universe we contain to the one which contains us. By doing so, we will realise that the boundaries between the two universes are an imposture: each of us, while getting lost in the labyrinth-universe of the story-telling, will perceive the epiphany of one's own self through the mirror of one's own figures.