The word as light
- Admin
- Jan 15
- 1 min read

The symbolic power of the word transcends its communicative function: it is presence that illuminates, that transforms the ominous into habitable. It's not the content of speaking that sustains, but the very act of enunciation as testimony of presence. The voice of the Other operates as a beacon in darkness, not for what it says, but for the very fact of its emergence in the void.
Language reveals here its most fundamental function: creating bridges between solitudes, converting the threatening space of absence into habitable territory. The word functions as an organizer of experience, as a constructor of psychic reality. It doesn't simply transmit information: it establishes the very coordinates of what is possible, thinkable, livable.
In this phenomenon condenses the deepest truth about language's function in subjective constitution: its capacity to transform reality by the mere act of naming it, to make present what is absent, to convert chaos into cosmos. The word doesn't just describe the world: it creates it, organizes it, makes it habitable. It is light that not only illuminates, but constitutes what is illuminated.
-
In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1)
Comments