The mistical experience in Summa of clarities of Laureano Albán

Abstract

The mystical experience develops around the look, the memory, the dreamlike vision of childhood, childhood landscapes, the clarity, and the figures of the child, father, mother and sister, in Summa of Clarities (1992), of the Costa Rican poet Laureano Alban. For the hermeneutical analysis, the concept of mysticism is defined. The symbols are interpreted according to the anthropological structures of the imaginary of Gilbert Durand. The chronotope of the lyrical subject’s mystical experience is established. The passing from distressing night to diurnal and dreamlike environment is observed. In this environment, the unconscious and religious experiences cut across and they bring the lyrical subject to a cosmic and holy life. The realization of the Jungian archetypes of the child, father, mother and anima is equally observed. These archetypes configure a quaternity in the imaginary, ontological, existential and mystical reality of lyrical subject.