Languages of Symbol

Thursday, May 04, 2006

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.

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