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Hypnosis and Symbolism

FORMS OF COMMUNICATION HYPNOTIC :
The symbolic efficacy of Claude Levi-Strauss

C. Renzi

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ABSTRACT

through dreams, imagination, metaphor us we open our sensory experience and we are being able to structure and experience a different world view. Every time this happens it becomes the predominant symbolic function and the learning process is entirely entrusted (Fonzi et al., 1975; Durand, 1987). In the particular case of hypnosis, moving the sensitive area from the outside favors to the highest degree the emergence of process symbolization. But, unlike the spontaneous productions (dreaming, artistic expression, etc. ..) in hypnotic situation consciously symbolic activity can be channeled and channeled towards the achievement of specific goals.
Never, perhaps, as in the case of the hypnotic situation, one can account for the high structuring power of language on human behavior (Watzlawick, 1974). word here, abdicating the role denotative, it brings back memories and create and resonance effects that derive psictìica cause significant changes in action and in the same behavior (Watzlawick, 1986). This is the domain of the symbolic function, human attribute peculiar and its related more important: the mind-body communication.
In this sense, and starting from this premise, the writer wants to bring to the attention a document, already of great importance in the field of anthropology, which she believes may be usefully compared to the study of hypnosis. Document in question is from an article by Claude Levi-Strauss called "The symbolic efficacy", originally released in 1949 on magazine "Revue de l'Histoire des Religions" and then gathered with others in the volume : Structural Anthropology (Levi-Strauss, 1966). The discussion centered around what is defined as the first great text magical-religious cultures of South America.
who seems writes that the cure shamanic anthropology considered of exceptional interest, it is much more usefully be put in relation with hypnosis than with psychoanalysis. And one must add, for the sake of accuracy, hypnosis and the practice as we know it today. Now that we are supported by an extensive clinical documentation and an equally extensive experimentation in the field of that phenomenon we call hypnosis, we can perhaps better appreciate the authenticity of this document, now considered historic, and the important contribution that can lead to discussion around content of the symbolisation process and the effectiveness of the techniques that use them. and between them, hypnosis is sovereign.