ABSTRACT
Every society has its version. As in the analogue of the fable of Narcissus, it contributes its interpretations, in such a way that the stake of recognition – stake which neither subject nor culture can renounce, without annihilation – resolves into a hermeneutic. Between perception of the thing and the subject, the representation interposes itself, with all its unconscious implications – and there's only representation in humanity because there is a Third of language. The "naturalization" of signification, doctrinally proclaimed by the brilliant firebrands, implicitly postulates homogeneity of registers, assimilating representation to the thing. There is the thing, and there is perception of the thing. Perception becomes representation in absence of the thing. The problem of foundation posed is that of envisaging, not so much the destiny of the concerned societies, who will face it however they can, but rather the nature of the discourse invested with the structural function of instituting images.
