KALBOS IR PATIRTIES PLOTMĖS SIMBOLYJE
The Dimensions of Language and Experience in Symbols

Summary/Abstract: The main objective raised in the article is the substantiation of determination, as well as the incognisability of symbolic expressions. Foremost, the article states that all theories postulating the differentiation of a symbol or a sign or, on the contrary, identity, can be obtained only in the limits of their own assumptions. Secondly, the diversity of the research of symbolic fields reveals the peculiarities of the symbolic signification. The surplus of symbolic meaning always functions as the antithesis of direct meaning; however, the understanding of the direct meaning opens the door to the endless horizons of the meaning. A symbol, as a metaphor, is characterised by the semantic aspect; thus it responds to logical and linguistic analysis by the viewpoint of signification and interpretation. However, the research of the symbol in an articulate plane will never be sufficient, as it is distinguished by the prelinguistic, unreducible aspect into conceptual language, which burdens the research of a symbol. This aspect, the most irrational and complicated in symbolic expressions, is explored by psychoanalysis and the phenomenology of religion, which reveal the deepest layers of human experience. Nevertheless, the articulate and pre-linguistic planes in a symbol are closely linked with each other, because the depth of the experiences of the underlying human entity testifies to the inveteracy of primeval Discourse into Life.

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