Languages of Symbol

Thursday, May 04, 2006

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.

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