Eon (Nov 2023)
În căutarea alternativului și conștiința celei-mai-bune-dintre-lumile-posibile. Surprizele literaturii Fantasy
Abstract
The models of our imaginary belong exclusively, at least we think so, to archetypes, to which we attribute or, on the contrary, we erase from the ancestral pattern unique elements of a personal character. For example, how many times have we heard the phrase: "I've been through hell"? Then I listened to personal representations of Hell, which were loss of a loved one, illness, helplessness, poverty, defamation, loneliness, anxiety, pain. On the other hand, "we have found the perfect being" and its description does not correspond to our expectations either physically or morally, because we have become familiar with some patterns, with the conventional, the usual, and if we move the border a millimeter away, we are guilty of ideological abuse. Parallel to these individual images of a personal character, we find those established in art, no matter in which of its branches. Just as we relate to the episodes in the spatial-temporal coordinates that we witness with or without our will, we have the freedom to identify the worldly ill or to restore the good, through catharsis, by appealing to the imagination and the imaginary. The most important way we can be rescued, at least if we refer to the soul, is through art.
