ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the fundamental point, to which the problem of reflexivity, at the institutional level, is referable. It discusses the mode of the social fabrication of the mirror, starting from the Greek formula of the adequate or probable myth. The chapter also discusses the problem of the imaginal status of Science appears to impose itself. It outlines the referential elements in the examination of the social support of the specular relation. Interrogating the social Subject of fiction has thus opened onto the question of the historical writing of intrigue, masked only by contemporary experimental scientism. The problem of the representation – as conveying the question of the relation of identity for the considered society – can be approached with clarity. Mythological discourse organizes identity in the culture and poses itself as imaginal instance in every society. Every society lives on a certain representation of causality.