The Fantastic Symbol: A Mythico-Physical Reality There is a final issue here. It has to do with the different natures of representation, image, language, and what is sometimes called, at least in the study of religion, the sign versus the symbol (two very different conceptions). This takes us back to the two natures of “meaning” in Atmanspacher and Fuchs, a superficial level in the social or textual sense and the “deep structure of meaning” related to the psychophysically neutral ground. Reference and sense, to use their language.
