Symbolic system

The symbolic system or Symbologie indicates in general the Science Symbole S or that of the Symbole S specific to people, a Culture, with a religion, etc the biblical symbolic system. Where the Signe is agreed and, as far as possible, completely univocal, the symbol suggests, evokes, without circumscribing it, a major reality.

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It should be admitted that any action, except the action reflex, can be regarded as symbolic system. Taken in this direction, that wants to say that the brain converted a sensitive data into a “mental representation”; in many cases that means to organize sensitive data in indices, the indices in tables, to find relations between the tables, in a word to include/understand. In this context, the transformations symbolic systems (conversions of the sensory data into symbols) are the base even human thoughts. The symbols do not have only the function to recreate sensory data, they make it possible the human being to recreate the emotional circumstances surrounding these data, to recreate by means of symbols a flow of thought and emotions connected to each other. The symbols are often exteriorized by means of the words.

All the cultures produced a symbolic system and its field of expression is varied:

  • the color S,
  • the Form S,
  • the figures, the Number S,
  • animal ,
  • vegetable : flower S, trees, fruits,
  • the Matter: minerals, metals, 5 elements, fabrics,
  • etc

The adjective symbolic system applies to what is used as symbol, with what has the character of a symbol a figure symbolic system, a painting symbolic system.

Symbolic system and psychoanalysis freudienne

The Psychanalyse provided an interpretation of symbolisms of the Rêve carried to translate the Signe S of them apparent, by taking into account meaning Phénomène S functioning at the same time like manifest and in a way latent E.

From the theoretical point of view freudienne, the symbol is included/understood here like means for the desire of veiling itself, not to imply itself: it is about a Mechanism of defense of the conscious system. Among the various operations that are the Dream-work, and which aims at being denied thoughts Inconscient are, the secondary development describes the psychic effort to found a dream presenting a coherent scenario, and using the symbolic system, which will lead to astonishing a condensation.

The symbolic system will take much importance in the continuation of the psychoanalysis. The structuralist analysis will indeed bring to assimilate Langage (or speech) and symbolic system.

Symbolic system and literature

In Literature, the term indicates a polysemous, suitable statement narrative or descriptive for a double interpretation in the field of reality and the plan of the ideas.

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