Term
Signification
used in 28 texts across the archive
“Signification is not a mechanism ; its functioning depends on the fact that each use of a “symbolic” sign reactivates, with vastly diminished affect, the originary sacred context. This context is, however little we are conscious of it, a collective one; the sign is a mode of communication whose reduction to a solipsistic recording of thought distorts its function beyond repair. In the originary event, the movement of appropriative intent toward the object becomes a signifying gesture representing the object.”
In use
“In contrast, the signification-criterion is roughly speaking that of truth, al though only declarative sentences possess a genuine truth-value.”
“Attending to the tacit knowing enabling any signification recuperates distractions by using them to break up the fixations that interfere with our attending to the overlapping margins of our idioms that make language learning possible.”
“Any act of signification aims at changing the field of probabilities within which it is situated.”
Key texts