Transitional Phenomena. From "Ausdrucksphaenomen" to "Urphaenomen"

The theory of th expressive phenomenon ("Phenomenology of Knowledge", 1929), is marked by a fundamental unconceptuality; at the basis of the perception of the other it posits the fluidity of the mythical world or of its correlate. The unconceptuality is destined to a metaphysical or metaphorical outcome. The theory of the perception of expression ("Logic of the Cultural Sciences", 1942) resolves the pregnancy of expression in the structure of the symbolic world. That the theory of the originary phenomena I, Thou and Es ("On Basis Phenomena, 1940) represents the missing link in the transition from expression to perception of expression, in the translation of the expressive character from the I-Thou relation to the relation with the Es, is possible on the basis of the theory of the work and first of all of the work of art.