Definition of "analogon" [a•nal•o•gon]

• Analogue (noun)

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• "Thus, the external, extrinsic sociological fact or system of realities finds itself inscribed within the internal instrinsic experience of the film in what Sartre in a suggestive and too-little known concept in his Psychology of Imagination calls the analogon: 5 that structural nexus in our reading or view - ing experience, in our operations of decoding or aesthetic reception, which can then do double duty and stand as the substitute and the representative within the aesthetic object of a phenomenon on the outside which cannot in the very nature of things be"
• "Now, idea, taken in indissoluble connection with this 'analogon' of product is mind, that which knows itself, and the existence of which may be inferred, but cannot appear or become a"
• "This 'analogon' of product is to be itself; but were it indeed and substantially a product, it would cease to be self."