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The Social Person (Mask) “Anima”

 The Anima is a general social person that encompasses all others: it includes humans and animals, of both genders and all ages, living and dead. As a general concept, it is not the result of an economic determination, but rather a process of primitive interpretation, a self-reflective explanation of life itself as a phenomenon that includes the phenomenon of death, a concept produced by the repeated observation of cycles and actions, and the permanence of intangible linguistic elements in the group's experience. The Anima is a simple hypothesis that explains at once the persistence of the memory of the dead, the world of dreams, and an intangible element, or better, fuzzy assessment of nature, by which we understand it and we feel ourselves to be part of it. Once the Anima is accepted in that triple dimension, the distinction between natural and supernatural beings is a superfluous classification, since the soul person establishes the bridge and the continuity between the scenarios where it acts, a triple topology, supra world, underworld, and world of the living, which is united by the concept and has an effective application in vital action.

The idea of Anima is the condition of possibility of the communicative narratives of archaic societies, a concept of primitive determination that turns the economic or functional actions of the group into a meaningful whole: the action of the hunter and the woman in labor make sense, the death in the jaws of animals and by old age, it makes sense, the incomprehensible nature, the body, and the scenarios that surround us, are part of a vital emotional framework that emotions interpret automatically, but with the help of the concept of the soul seem to reveal a more fundamental substratum, a unitary representation of meaning. With the idea of ​​person-anima, the first self-image of life takes shape and does so as a general person from his own emotional experience, from the actions of group integration, from the reproductive and sustenance program, towards the synthesis of a principle regulatory staff. With the Anima, natural actions are objectified in a unified narrative that allows integrating economic narratives in an abstractive synthesis of great epistemological power: for the first time, a symbol is built that accounts for appearances as a whole, in fact, it is in that moment and from the generality of an Anima person who narrates it, that the world appears before the human being as a representation.

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