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Paul Ricoeur on Symbols - Dictionary of Arguments
I 19 Symbol/Psychoanalysis/Dream Interpretation/Ricoeur: The dream and its analogues (...) are located (...) in an area of language that announces itself as the place of complex meanings, where in an immediate sense another sense opens up and at the same time hides itself; we want to call this region of double meaning symbol, (...) >Myth/Ricoeur, >Sense/Ricoeur, >Desire/Ricoeur. I 22 Symbol definitions: A. Too wide: a too wide definition is that which sees in the "symbolic function" the general mediating function with which the mind, the consciousness constructs all its worlds of perception and speech: For example, Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. >Cassirer/Ricoeur. I 25 Symbol/Ricoeur: [the symbol] is a dualism of a higher degree [than the sign]. (See >Symbol/Ricoeur). It is neither the one of sensual sign and meaning, nor the one of meaning and thing (...) It is added to the previous one and superimposes it as a relationship of sense to sense (...). (>Sense/Ricoeur). So I limited the concept of symbol (...) to the ambiguous and ambiguous expressions whose semantic texture interacts with the work of interpretation that explicates its second or multiple meaning. >Interpretation/Ricoeur. I 28 There is no symbolism preceding the speaking person (...). I 29 Symbol definitions: B. Too Narrow: [too narrow a definition] consists in characterizing the band between sense and sense in the symbol by analogy. For example, analogies between spot and pollution, between deviation and sin, between burden and sinfulness; [in general] in a sense, the analogy between the physical and the existential. I 31 Interpretation: [the] connection to interpretation is not external to the symbol (...) It is precisely the double sense, the intentional orientation of the second sense within and by means of the first sense, that produces understanding (...). Therefore there is no symbol without a beginning of interpretation (...)._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ricoeur I Paul Ricoeur De L’interprétation. Essai sur Sigmund Freud German Edition: Die Interpretation. Ein Versuch über Freud Frankfurt/M. 1999 Ricoeur II Paul Ricoeur Interpretation theory: discourse and the surplus of meaning Fort Worth 1976 |
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