Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In Western thought, from the late 19th century through most of the 20th century, it is possible to identify, broadly speaking, three central figures of the collective that have predominated: community, mass, and group. However, the first (the community) seems to have been diluted in mass formations or group formations when it comes to both psychological and psychoanalytic analyses of the collective. It is from another field, literature, that Ricciotto Canudo (1877-1929) wrote a novel that will contribute a previously unseen figure of what a community can function: the magic circle. Here, we propose to explain this figure based on the encounter between the French psychoanalyst Jean Allouch and Canudo’s work, while attempting to show some examples of how a community functions when it takes the form, not of a mass or a group, but of a magic circle. This leads to a contribution, which hopefully will be significant, to thinking about what is common and the ways of creating community in a variety of areas and scenes from which psychoanalysis can draw lessons for itself and its practice.
Author: García, Diego
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220123627