THE NATURE OF CULTURE: THE COEXISTENCE OF ANTAGONISMS

Abstract

For the Argentine thinker Rodolfo Kusch, if there is no symbolic horizonif there is no symbolic horizon, no ground, then there is nothing to be decided. That is to say, there is no cultural subject, only the shared symbolic meaning between the narrative of modernity and coloniality which coexist in the American community in a dual form, where the natural is culturalized and the cultural is naturalized allowing the condition where the shared symbol in a territory gives magnitude and value to the community spell. The contributions of anthropology and psychoanalysis gave the cleavage of nature to culture, and the legal aspect of the act make invisible the natural right in the social right, leading to a social, complex, diverse and pluricultural bond, in permanent movement. It’s about leaving the triad that underlies the action of modernity, being / essence / concept, to position ourselves as Cullen says in the triad: living / stay / symbol. Kusch had initially formulated the idea of the project to locate the condition of being from denial. Clearly the denial in Kusch does not deny, but opens a different reference of being.