Imagine a word known only in thought, never on the tongue. You know its shape, its force, its place in the lattice of meaning. It is fully real to you — and yet, when you try to speak it, no sound comes.
The word resists articulation. No matter how you move your mouth, the air will not shape itself around it. To others, it seems as if nothing was said. To you, however, the word remains, pressing insistently at the edge of expression.
This is not silence, but an asymmetry: construal without symbolisation. The meaning exists, but it cannot pass into the shared system of language. It hovers on the boundary between thought and communication, alive in the individual but absent in the collective.
The experiment reveals the fragility of symbolic life. A meaning without words can exist, but it cannot circulate, align, or endure. It is a solitary construal, unable to take part in the reflexive architectures of language.
What this reveals:
The symbolic order is not a passive mirror of thought but an enabling infrastructure. A meaning without expression is already constrained, bound to the private horizon of its thinker. Only in symbolisation can meanings move, align, and become part of a shared world.
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