%0 Journal Article
%T La eficacia simb¨®lica
%A Jes¨˛s Gonz¨˘lez Requena
%J Trama y Fondo : Revista de Cultura
%D 2009
%I Asociaci¨®n Cultural Trama y Fondo
%X In his seminal text The Symbolic Efficacy, Claude L¨¦vi-Straus carries out an analysis of the shamanic ritualsamong the Kuna Indians provided to assist women in a difficult labour. He wondered about this particular efficiency, for which he coined the phrase symbolic efficacy. The present paper focuses on a critical review of thesaid text from the perspective of a theory of the symbolic. Firstly, a differential definition of notions such as signand symbol, meaning and sense, and semiotic efficacy and symbolic efficiency is made. Then, myth symbolicfunction is reconsidered by assuming that symbolic stories play a determining role in subjectivity conformation.
%K Theory of the symbolic. Semiotics. Ethnology. Psychoanalysis. Myth
%U http://www.tramayfondo.com/numeros_revista/Trama_y_Fondo_26.pdf