Abstract

The following essay makes a route by diverse “orbits” of the imaginary. Orbits that have considered –from the notions of totem and taboo and the opposition between bricoleur and engineer—the negativity implied by the sense acts of corporal devoration and sexual practices. That is, totemism –as a regulation which includes the human beings in terms of sex and the animals in terms of food—outlines by way of thesis that these visions are pervaded by the nictomorphic imaginary regime, of the dark, of the black. As a consequence of that, and protected by certain scientism and a so-called human capacity (that would confront the animal and savage) several theories that intended to hide any colonial-Christian burden are set out. From this initial approach comes up a postmodern neo-totemism, in which the unlimited extension of the images produces an irreversible crisis in the regimes of the imaginary.