Abstract
Modern thinking has been characterized by enunciating in its discourse the epistemic claim of a universalist, Eurocentric, and extremely rationalist knowledge. This has not only left other cultures and societies out of its frameworks, but also the knowledge and anthropological dimensions of the human being that precede the development and deployment of reason as a faculty. Such is the case of imagination, a human faculty destined to occupy a problematic and ambiguous place in the history of Western ideas; marginalized by those historiographical positions that interpret the birth of science as a dispute between myth and logos. Where fantasies, dreams, daydreams, revelations, and mystical experiences lack ontological status and are condemned to live within the limits of Western ratio. Faced with this ontological devaluation of the imagination, and considering the symbolic hermeneutics of Jung, and other related authors, the purpose of this essayistic article is to address the transcendent symbolic dimension of the daemonic experience. The mythological figure of the daemon, as a symbol and not in its literal and direct sense. Under the figure of the daemon, we can better understand the unifying function of the symbol as an energizer of the psyche, which allows the conjunction of opposites as a vehicle of the imagination.
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