THE SYMBOLIC OF THE GOOD WILD IN THE ROUSSEAU´S ROMANTIC IMAGINARY. A TENSION BETWEEN THE NATURAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL

Abstract

The article pretends to advance in the comprehension of the figure of the wild as an element that characterizes the constitutive tension between the natural opposite the artificial, present in some works of romantic literature of the 19^th century, and that symbolizes, among other things, the imaginary with which the romantic establishes a distance from the rational attitude that the illustrated man demands to account for the world, nature and society. For it, there will be checked some passages of The dreams and The social contract in Rousseau´s work, shedding light the relation that guards the natural condition of the human emotions (exposed in the notion of natural order) from the social order artificially constructed across the use of the reason. This interpretation will be approached from the notion of symbolic imaginary of Gilbert Durand and across the figure of the artificial wild proposed by Roger Bartra.