HISTORY AS TERATOLOGY: THE CASE OF DEN, BY RICHARD CORBEN

Abstract

With this new pairing, one more within the extensive field of historiology, and following in the footsteps of Ethan Kleinberg, specifically in his theoretical “History as Fantology”, we present theoretically and practically (the case of Den) what has already been tested in our trilogy entitled The Culture of Death. Broadly speaking, Historiology as Teratology analyzes, understands and explains history through conceptual lenses, chosen from among many other possible ones, lenses that are largely metaphorical; with this last election we are indebted, especially to Mijaíl Bajtín, Gilbert Durand, Carl Jung, René Girard, Hans Blumenberg and Jacques Lacan. Likewise, our main analytical tool is “clioanalysis”, or psycho-mytho-historical hermeneutics