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Started final chapter titled Openings.

Finished chapter on Freud—this is a very interesting book being a comparative history of semantics or Rhetoric/Aesthetics as the author says himself. By focusing only on theories of the symbol, he quotes from several authors only about symbols or signs, symbols or figures of speech or tropes or metaphors, by including what a symbol is not in the study hes able to touch on several disciplines in one volume.

A comparative recapitulation of some theories on aesthetics & rhetoric. Comparative literature about literature.

This book apparently climaxes with Romantic aesthetic dichotomy of symbol vs allegory.

Interesting study in comparative theoretical aesthetics. Is this art? Appended to Derrida’s book on speech, plan on Baudrillard’s Political economy of the sign(a critique).