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Signifier - signified
Signifiers are these words in rough, sounds and drawings that, in a strange exchange, make pass for others, hide themselves to make present some entities that are not there: the signified. In this game of transfer and replacement that seems to define the essence of language, words in rough acquire a condition of void. Being endlessly repeated by the subjects across the time and without being able to permanently fixed meaning, become hollow; empty cabinets in which we temporarily store objects, people, emotions, but also facts: events. We use the same system of symbols to designate real (a tree), mental (sadness, love) or abstract (concepts, ideas) things.
Signifiers are these words in rough, sounds and drawings that, in a strange exchange, make pass for others, hide themselves to make present some entities that are not there: the signified. In this game of transfer and replacement that seems to define the essence of language, words in rough acquire a condition of void. Being endlessly repeated by the subjects across the time and without being able to permanently fixed meaning, become hollow; empty cabinets in which we temporarily store objects, people, emotions, but also facts: events. We use the same system of symbols to designate real (a tree), mental (sadness, love) or abstract (concepts, ideas) things.