García Márquez and the Magic Realism of Colombia
- Ariane Bilheran
- Oct 15, 2023
- 8 min read
La Lucarne, by Ariane Bilheran, in Antipresse 411 - October 15, 2023.
Our era is suffering from an impoverishment of the imagination. The totalitarian drift narrows our relationship to space (e.g., confinements, reductions in travel, under the cover of different ideologies) and to time (e.g., explosion of our relationship to immediacy, under the influence of consumer capitalism and screens). On the contrary, the imagination is this psychic function that allows us to open new horizons and navigate through the centuries. I have been able to demonstrate in my research in psychology that our internal security is only deployed on the amplitude of our imagination [1]. The equation is simple: "More totalitarianism equals less imagination. Less imagination equals more totalitarianism." This is also the reason why literature, at least that which is the place of the imagination and therefore of expression freed from ideological enslavement, displeases totalitarian powers so much.
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