ABSTRACT
The image of a person is neither the person himself nor his character. Talking about an image, in any event, is a way of defining space, where the object and its contours are laid out, where the limits of the ad intra and the ad extra are set in an inexpressible relation. An ‘image’ emerges invariably in the midst of other objects. One speaks of the ‘image’ as something that sets even itself ‘apart’. That means, as one knows, two things: that there is a ‘shape’ against a ‘background’ and that one is not mistaken for the other. Yet without the background, the shape itself is insignificant.
