## Metadata - Author: [[Peter T. Struck]] - Full Title: Birth of the Symbol - Category: #books ## Highlights - a symbol has something missing, and this incompleteness begs to be re-solved. The symbol rings with both lack and potential wholeness, some-thing incomplete and something always potentially complete. The symbol is also implicated, as Plato’s particular example highlights, in an economy of desire. The symbol itself, precisely in its being a symbol, generates a passion, an inquiry, an investigation, and an examination, or, to employ a term that embraces both lack and desire, the symbol operates according to want. ([Location 1899](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002WJM5Z0&location=1899))