excavating the unconscious

loʊɡɒs

A common language in tattered fragments, meaning strewn through time, retrieved by trawling the layers for relics folded and folded

A perfect picture, Socrates says, will produce good communication. According to Plato, in contemplation there always exists an affinity to the visual  experience.  ... the visual experience was seen as a new light, and images were considered "the main roads to cognition."

"According to Damascus, the image (icon) 'reaches farther than the perception of the human eye in natural experience, it shows what lies beyond the realm o f visual experience.' The icon reveals more than what can be seen in nature; it makes us "see" the invisible. And since it represents the invisible, its purpose is to attain this goal: ' ... when the Invisible One becomes visible to flesh, you may then draw a likeness of its form .. "

Alexandrakis p 83

ei·do·lon  (-dln)

n. pl. ei·do·lons or ei·do·la (-l)

1. A phantom; an apparition.

2. An image of an ideal.

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[Greek eidlon, from eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]