Rojas-Malpica Carlos, Villaseñor-Bayardo Sergio J, Reyes-Rivas José Refugio, Mobilli-Rojas Adele
Vertex. 2015 Jan-Feb;26(119):72-8.
The symbolic order offers a great number of opportunities for understanding man's greatest fears. Based on Lévi-Strauss' original concept, we can study the symbolic efficacy of curses and enrich it with the most recent contributions of neuroscience, philosophy, and the anthropology of consciousness. This is a report of qualitative research traversed by the methods of phenomenology and symbolic hermeneutics on a rarely addressed subject of unique significance to cultural psychiatry. We have worked on the empirical data of some classic religious curses of great historical value, but we have also inquired into the phenomenon of secular excommunication. Finally, we have interpreted the symbols used in curses and the areas of the psyche that they succeed in mobilizing. We suggest that the primary core of curses is dogma, without which their symbolic efficacy would not be possible.
象征秩序为理解人类最大的恐惧提供了大量机会。基于列维-斯特劳斯的原始概念，我们可以研究诅咒的象征效力，并通过神经科学、哲学和意识人类学的最新成果对其进行丰富。这是一份定性研究报告，运用现象学和象征诠释学方法，探讨了一个对文化精神病学具有独特意义且很少被提及的主题。我们研究了一些具有重大历史价值的经典宗教诅咒的实证数据，同时也探究了世俗逐出教会的现象。最后，我们解读了诅咒中使用的符号以及它们成功调动的心理领域。我们认为，诅咒的主要核心是教义，没有教义，其象征效力就不可能存在。
