1983
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2023. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Jules Gritti, « Contribution sémiologique au symbole », Revue Théologique de Louvain, ID : 10.3406/thlou.1983.1971
The present article is an attempt to confer a semiological status on the concept «symbol». Seven conditions are indispensable : analogy, polysemy, «surplus» of meaning, the conjugated interplay of metaphor and metonymy, the (corporal) work of the signifying substance, the signifying action. Finally, the symbol is studied as the integrating factor of symbolic Systems : narrative and myth, ritual organization ofspace.