The image and the imaginary.

Link between imaginary and image.

Definition: image; latin. a representation or copy. includes mental image, form in your mind a representation.

Imagination; fomation of mental image not perceived as real.

Link, difference between appearance and image. image is detatched. Bigger link between visual and illusion.
Touch is more reliable than sight. Visions prone to illusion. Suspicion, sight may only be image, not real, illusion.

Lacan, Mirror stage.

Photography: The Spark of the Real
Photo - latin, light.
Graphy - write.

Word image rivalry.
Which is more effective, word or image, similar.

Image is too broad a catagory.
Image works like a word. Pipe, not one specific, a catagory of objects. Words do not refer to individual things. shoe, sign: no shoes, refers to all shoes.

Cartoon hand, realistic hand. Cartoon easier to recognize. What we rocognize is less than what we see. basic pattern.

van gough - peasant shoes. painting refers to this particular pair of shoes.
Magritte, pipe. Not a particular pipe, all pipes. closer to a sign.

Roland Barthes.
Photographic image has a referent.
'can you put out that pipe'
'take off those shoes'

contarst with photos and how words work.

not all photographs refer to 'thisness' ambush you with the real. studium, visual, cliche, stereotypes, cultural, seen as an illustration. unexpected flash of reality.
Punctun - latin, point or blindspot. punctuation.

Freud, Lacan and Others.
The word image interface.
Surrealism.
Puns. Both meanings present. A play on words, at the same time. Normally kept seperate, no relationship.
a.The architect whsoe career 'lies in ruins.'
b.At the Circus. the human cannonball who went to offer his resignation only to be told 'we were going to fire you anyway'
fire has two meaning present at the same time.
c. An architect on prison caomplained that teh walls were not built to scale.
homonym; spelt the same, sounds the same, different meaning.
d.the excitment at the circus is in tents.

Shaespear 'now is the winter of out discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.
Homonphone; spelt different, sounds the same.

One signifier, two different signified.
Central to Freud, way he thinks unconscious works.
Does not use a fixed language of symbols.
3 different ways.
syptoms, slips of the tongue, dreams.

parrallel language.

Bruse Fink. slipks of the tongue. Job, Scnob - not an actual word. snob, scnez (Jewish word for nose) Unconscious hijacked 'job' similarity in sound.
Patient as a child had a fear of his fathers nose, older brother snob. Onyl unerstood in relation to patients history. Patient regards this as an error. encoded. Unconscious speaking in code as i cannot speak directly.

Dreams consist of images, secret content often a word disguised as an image, pictogram. Dream Rebus.

conversation. annogram of conservation. unconscious scrambles the word to find an image.

Metonomy. Give me a hand.
Two mouths to feed.

Surrealists.
Magritte.
A rabbit or a duck?
This is not a pipe.
representation of a pipe, not actual.
part of the painting, not the title.
'The treason of images'
title and image. 'The rape' perception changes.