When foto-graphias (re) present mythical meanings of the imaginary

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the relationship between the photographic image and the manifestation of symbolic thinking, questioning photographic language as a mediator in the process of understanding the systemic relations of man with the environment, presenting the photoanalysis as a methodology of the Imaginary. With socio-phenomenological studies guided by the ideas of Gilbert Durand, featuring photo-graphia as an instance of the image that gives visibility to archetypal emanations materialized as symbolic schemes that lead to the path of the anthropological being, giving visibility to the founding of the imaginary subjects/photographers, and expanding the epistemological and methodological references about photography and its practices in the context of academic research.