Happiness of the sociology of imagination of Gilbert Durand

Abstract

The author examines the definition of “happiness” in the context of the theory of imagination by Gilbert Durand. The basic concepts of the sociology of imagination, according to Gilbert Durand, are such as the “imaginaire”, “trajet anthropologique”, the status of the mythos (its dynamics), Orders and groups within the imaginaire: “diurne”/“nocturne.” In the context of this belief system, the idea of happiness, which is the result of a free play of the imagination, is in an “intermediate” state: it changes and develops, on the way from the past to the future, on the path of an anthropological trajectory