Why do systems of domination and praxis of emancipation achieve legitimizing efficacy when they manage to disrupt subjectivity as a nucleus of imaginary, expectations and collective passions? The text asks about the practical function of myths, the ways of understanding the senses of history and the political power of collective desires. This problem is studied from the theoretical production of some Latin American thinkers, among them Franz Hinkelammert. We postulate that there is no possible emancipation without their desire, nor without a myth that encourages criticism of the determinist conceptions of history.

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