Abstract EN:

The reconciling of contraries is the issue raised in this semiotic study grounded on greimas's theory. Greimassian complexity appears but as a pseudo-complexity (antithesis). The neutral term splits up into two varieties: a strong and a weak form, the latter being realized in two ways, according to whether the category is or is not liable to grading: a synthetic weak neutrality (combined) and a composite one (oxymoronic). Surrealistic discourse rejects the discrete nature of the discrete gradable and identity alterity oppositions, reconciling these terms and the two above mentioned weak neutral forms into a new variety of weak neutrality. Thus unity becomes both itself and something else than itself. Isotopies occur at the intra-instead of the intersemiotic level where the adequation between language and referent which presupposes their distinction is achieved. Poetic semiotics neutralize this distinction in its own order, while preserving its solidarity with the order of reality. Images are creative discoveries of units, in which the notion of resemblance is not necessarily useful. A "subjectal" instance (neutralization of the subject object opposition), the instance of desire, works as a guarantee of the neutralizations observed. Connexions are also to be established between text and living experience, and within living experience itself. From an epistemic viewpoint, the surrealistic text endeavours to make incredible connexions appear as acceptable (being able to - and having to - believe), thanks to the elaboration of a competency where an enunciative neutrali- zation also occurs. But such connexions are made valid at once as images and as explanations within the poetic order.