Disestablished university

Abstract

The university as a social institution has been historically conceptualized in a diverse way in relation to the imaginaries of the society that creates them, from both its origins to current times; being in medieval times, with religious interference in knowledge; being under the ideals of illustration with its principles based in reason in order to delegate ignorance and superstition; and  finally being for the positivist and behavioral vision which rationality and a cold instrumental vision was looking for mankind and nature dominance. The ordinary of this historical revision, the university has been created as an institution formed by a social group and it is dedicated to knowledge, and because of its implications, comes from an organization for its adequate functioning. In the National Pedagogical University of Chihuahua State in Mexico (UPNECH) created by a decree by the state government on August 6^th 2011as a public and decentralized organism of the state government ascribed to the bureau of education, sports and culture of the executive branch of the state, both conditions are in crisis in respect to scientific, economic, social and political complexity. This study pretends to remark the crisis in the UPNECH expressed in the second condition and, the way the tension is institutionally manifested (in the social imaginaries) resulting from a state level to the group and individual supported under the view of the symbolic theory and psychoanalysis.