The meanings of the word "image" cannot be put into a single formulation, since the concept is both material, and metaphysical, and semantic separating.
Interpretation of the image
This is how various dictionaries describe the essence of the word:
- philosophical reading: the image is the form, the essence, the ideal of the original representation of objects in the human mind;
- appearance as it is;
- in the artistic reading in the explanatory dictionary, the meaning of the word "image" is understood as a role model or criticism, a very characteristic character; idea of someone specific, by transferring his personality traits to objects, people;
- representation of something;
- icon-painting image - here the meaning of the word "image" means the image of the depicted saint;
- visible, dreamed up in the imagination.
In our time, to define the meaning of the word "image" means to delve into the description of the appearance or an explanation about the nature of someone's thinking: a female image, the way of his thoughts (behavior).
Image in ancient Slavic culture
In an abstract discussion about what an image is,specificity is not needed, because first of all it is a mental perception. The image of evil and deceit was outlined by our distant ancestors in the form of dragons and all kinds of monsters, the image of the entire Russian people - in epic heroes, each of them was also characterized by individual features, therefore, images.
The lexical meaning of the word "image" is an appearance that gives an idea of the appearance, character and main personality traits of an individual - meets all the canons for transferring this concept into the formation of folk tales. The main purpose of figurative presentation is to facilitate understanding of the topic through the use of symbolic features. So, God, in a figurative representation, is always male, and an exemplary student, a "nerd" - in big glasses.
Deciphering a word in the Old Slavonic alphabet is subject to the usual rule of separating meaning into sub-meanings:
- Oh - similar, same, similar.
- B - God, essence.
- R - ra, sun, radiance.
- Az is a human being.
In other words, only a person like radiance (bright personality) can achieve the vision of true images.
Where the Image is born
The image is born in mental perception by transferring feelings, sensations, internal needs to real objects. So, a handsome young man could be portrayed as an angel, and a sick child as a vicious life of generations. Every person who has the ability to think abstractly has a need to submit to certain images.
Thinking without abstraction is the clearest sign of mental retardation. A person whose consciousness is limited by the actual existence of the current moment is no different from an animal in terms of mental state.
Power of Image
Due to the fact that the metaphysical meaning of the word "image" is a concept that does not require a real shell, its power is enormous, as it is based on a boundless vacuum emptiness. From the emptiness of this mental process, a certain Form is created, pouring with psychokinetic density, like a vessel with water. Anything the creator wants to fill the Form - characteristic features, the presence of a negative or positive core (classic characters are not "average" - they are either good or bad).
As the Form gains personality traits, it actually becomes independent. From the moment when the existing image leaves the void, of which it is no longer a part, it begins to form its own space around itself, acquire actions, friends, enemies.
Creating a person's own image goes through the same process, but it has an impact on the physical body, which means it requires constant replenishment in the form of real actions. In other words, creating the look of a business person, an individual will have to change his wardrobe for a solid one, buy an expensive car, etc.
Artistic image
At the beginning of any story lies an idea. As a rule, the idea is embodiedthe intention of conveying some kind of action, around which a tangle of events is already growing, a multitude of faces and places where the scenes unfold. Each element of this complex systemic representation has a chance to be embodied in an artistic image. The meaning of the word here is given by the aesthetic presentation: the image of autumn will be a yellowing leaf that has fallen into the pond, and the image of a chance meeting can be the smell of lavender water that accompanies the heroine.
In other words, a penetrating phenomenon that resonates well with perception is sure to become a symbolic image of a short scene, episode or a whole book. Often short stories and novels are created, the real purpose of which is the description of one dialogue, which is the deep basis of the entire plot, or some kind of picture that arose in the author's brain and required embodiment.
The action of the artistic image
The main criterion by which an artistic image can be considered ergonomically presented is an aura of understatement with apparent integrity and typicality. Atypical incarnations also take place in the treasury of creative research, but, not echoing real situations, not finding an echo in the human mind, they run the risk of not forming the full meaning of the word "image".
The action of the heroes can be transferred to another planet or into the bowels of the earth, but if the modulation of events does not distort universal human values and vices, that lying is bad, but helping one's neighbor is good, the typical orientation of the reader or viewer will not requirerethinking.
Understatement, as if elements that were not accidentally traced in the description of the characters, the location of the development of events, is the key that allows an outside observer to independently conduct a survey.
It is largely thanks to well-designed characteristic features that classic characters, like Gogol's Plyushkin or the fox Alice from Pinocchio, have for several generations personified images of extreme avarice and quirky cunning.
