Term
Scene of Representation
used in 20 texts across the archive
“If we are to speak of an internal scene of representation, it must be composed as any scene—by means of a sign of deferral of some appropriation that would, if attempted, destroy the scene.”
In use
“The scene of representation is the sacred space in which the new dimension of the sign originates and is shared and internalized as a cultural memory within a universally maintained history recallable by each individual as the memory of the sign. But this same space is by the same token a potential space of violence.”
“The scene of representation is still primarily a place of deferral of conflict, not contemplation of a model of reality.”
“Anybody who uses language is a self endowed with free will; to use the sign on the scene of representation is to be a human self.”
“The scene of representation, however, is not just a rhetorical model of language as communication, but rather a model of transcendence or meaning.”
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