Tauromaquia —o ese extraño placer de la visualización de la muerte—
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/dl.v14i20.113267Keywords:
Bullfighting, origin, myths, semes, power, psychoanalisisAbstract
The present article focuses on the practice of bullfighting and the significant
thickness that goes beyond the simple act of the modern spectacle. It is an
attempt to archaeological and semiotic reading of this practice, seen as a
fossilized ritual of other older practices and meanings that drags on their way
through the successive civilizations that have given its origin. The thickness of
these readings does not rule out a possibility of psychoanalytic interpretation
related with a reflection on the symbolic link between the bull and power. All
those layers of significant thickness may explain the irrational fascination
Spanish or Latin American people audience that assist and live, perhaps
unthinkingly, (read unconsciously) forgotten symbols and rituals.
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