The Body As Metaphor

In a way, primordial thoughts determine the characteristics and the developing tendency of culture. How these thoughts cognize and organize the world is expanded by principles of comparability, hence the culture constructed not only includes order but also is full of flavor of poetry. Variations between idea and meaning, together with Symbolization and metaphor, prevail in the world of comparability. So, everything and its meaning open by comparability, it's also compulsory to use symbols to discover the huge system of comparability when trying to get to know it. In primordial thoughts, all objects function as symbols. They are themselves and also other things or properties which are comparable to them. Meanwhile, in the system of comparability, the meaning of symbols varies continuously through imagination, so symbols and other things have to achieve their comparability by imagination. Thereby symbols become the pivot to know the world. Though, anything could be the symbol to decode the whole world; in the general point of view, body, body will or the problem of to be or not is in a prominent position to interpret the comparability of primordial thoughts as a symbol. In this thesis, the symbol of bodies is analyzed, a concise abstractive outline of the world which is surrounding this pivot and matches it by principles of comparability is drew. Natural properties of bodies and their metaphor establish a comparable world; hence everything locates on this pivot and constructs the ordered and poetic world by means of adaptation, imitation, derivation and interaction. The pivot about the metaphor of bodies has been continuing to exist in later culture development and has been evolved into a method of artistic creation and understanding aesthetic work. Gender difference of the body introduces the ancient world of dichotomy; in different cultural systems, unification and contradiction between life and death have induced various cultural phenomena and aesthetic thoughts according to different ways to find matching objects in the principles of comparability.