La fonction symbolique dans la philosophie d'Edmond Ortigues : émergence et évolution

Abstract

The impressive array of disciplines mastered and explored extensively by Edmond Ortigues (1917-2005), as well as the diversity of the themes addressed (the relationship between historical criticism and theology, the relationship between form and meaning, the universality of the Oedipus complex, etc.), make accessing his intellectual journey a real challenge. I therefore needed to find a key to open these many doors and attempt to gain some insight into the tangle of texts he left us. This key was provided to me by one of Ortigues's earliest texts, Historical Critique and the Word of God, in 1945. It is the concept of symbol, a concept that permeated his work until the early 2000s. I trace the genealogy of this concept and demonstrate its progressive semantic development, as well as its major role in Ortigues's intellectual process. From the dual fusion with the mother to the posture of a human in a human community, from the initial impulse to the concept, the symbol accompanies this process which makes us lose immediate contact with the world but allows us to enter into a common system of reference in which each person is invited to exist for themselves within a common culture.(FILO - Philosophie) -- UCL, 202