Motifs and Images in a Balinese Ritual Drama: Their Mythic References and ‘Metaphorical Truth’

For insofar as dialectical thinking is thought about thought,… such self-consciousness must be inscribed in the sentence itself. And insofar as dialectical thinking characteristically involves a conjunction of opposites or at least conceptually disparate phenomena, it may be truly said of the dialectical sentence what Surrealists said about the image, namely that its strength increases proportionately as the realities linked are distant and distinct from each other (Jameson 1971: 53–4).