The sacrality of the symbolic and the new models of the sacred

the current urban culture of tattoos

Abstract

On the Catholic horizon, the symbolic takes on the perspective of apo-facto discourses. All communication stems from the “evidence”, even if negative, of a divine type figure. In ancestral spiritualities and religions, it is possible to speak of an experience of the sacred, which is more liberating. Otto, Eliade, Durkheim, Hulin spoke of fruition, but in today's urban culture, the culture of tattoos allows us to reconfigure the horizon of the concept of sacred. Mimicking other cultures, the concepts of body, experience, power, desire, symbolic, collective imagination and transformation of the subject present a phenomenology of identity, a recovery of the power of the symbolic and a responsibility of the subject for their identity, that has nothing to do with belief.