The functionality of a symbolic vaccine

Or against the normativity present in today´s urban society

Abstract

Sumary

Today´s society lives  according to normativity, which structures the notions of Person communication ant the World. The ideal of transparency and the ilusion of mastery of reality prevails. Against the tyranny of polishing, whick offers no resistance, we propose and antidote: the symbolic vaccine. Through a sensitivity to the Other and meditation on the symbol´s virtualities, we point to the need to encounter reality, in its density. In the event that is the encounter whit the Other, trought widom, strength and eros- typical of the symbol- the true experience of the World appears, which is to find the density of the real always near and distant. A true antidote that transforms the person ontologically.

Keywords: Sensiivity. Need. Wisdom. Strength. Eros. Symbol.