- According to Paul de Man, symbol is a feature of an art which attempts to transcend , avoid, or deny the inescapable fact of temporality in embodied human existence
- Allegory not only does not attempt to avoid temporality, it highlights human finitude.
In symbol, subject and object are a unity: "the symbol is founded on an intimate unity between the image that rises up before the senses and the suprasensory totality that the image suggests."
In allegory, subject and object are irreconcilably different and separate: "in the world of allegory, time is the originary constitutive category . . . . The meaning constituted by the allegorical sign can . . . consist only in the repetition . . . of a previous sign with which it can never coincide, since it is of the essence of this previous sign to be pure anteriority."
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