the word “symbol” is the result of the union of “syn” (I think this is how you write it) which means something like “together” (syn-chronic, which means at the same time, I suppose syn-thesis, etc) and “bol” which, as far as I understand, is related to the action of throwing (I do not remember the greek word, but it’s the word which “bullet” derives from). my point is that symbol contains the idea of throwing two things together, that is, the relationship between two things being thrown to the same place. I think it’s much more interesting the idea of throwing something in a semantic area than the idea of establishing exactly a single reference. it speaks, in any case, about the reference of a semantic matter, extensible to everything that could be thrown in the same direction. there’s no more of a signification and an institutionalized significant, both so rigid as objects from a mathematical formula, but places and entities related together. and the symbolic signification is not only what has been thrown, but also everything that has been thrown with it. form is an existential modus, it’s a manifested modus. form is symbol. and aesthetic as logos of the form, cares about being thrown as existential fundament, like what we could call, maybe in another context, content.
hernún.
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