The imagination of the other: intersections between psychoanalysis and hierology

Abstract

This article compares the contributions to the study of the imaginary and otherness made by two French thinkers, close one to each other due to the epoch in which they lived and the influence of phenomenology in their works: the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the philosopher and specialist on Islamic religion Henry Corbin. The objective is to contribute to the development of a method of psychological research which could avoid reductionism. It is concluded that, as the experience of the sacred cannot be dissociated from the revelation of the one who experiences it, the specific way of the religious event invites to listen its meaning from a psychological perspective.