ed by signifier and place. He is then stressing the materiality of the signifier, which can also been seen to be odd, for two reasons. The first is that is cannot be subject to divisibility. He gives the example that if we cut a letter (in the sense of a single character of the alphabet) into pieces, it will still retain its meaning. This is because letters refuse Gestalt theory and have no meaning in themselves, but only in relation to other things. This a similar idea to Freud's memory traces which, through differential opposition to other traces take their meaning, rather than being actual images of the event.
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