The instituted, generator of a rationalist University

Abstract

This study, from the theory of imaginary meanings of society, symbolic theory and psychoanalysis, observes the sense and meaning of such meanings, what they are, and what they mean. In other words, it analyzes the way in which the instituted is manifested and the way that allows to visualize how the rationalist character of the university is gestated and expressed, in relation to the indiscriminate use of the symbolic, which is gestated in a symbolic network that frames and directs its action; that is to say, it gives priority and direction in its actions to the legitimization of power, fundamentally, attached to the norm and the legal system. This entails, on one hand, observing not only a functionalist vision of the academic and administrative reality –which generates discontent and contempt for authority figures–, but also a distancing from all university projects. On the other hand, said vision generates omissions in strategies for an adequate professional training and a solid conformation of the institutional identity of the students of the Bachelor of Pedagogy, which in most cases is disturbed in the process of professional practices.