FOR A METAPHYSICS OF DEIXIS

Why to entitle an paper: “For a metaphysics of deixis”? First, because Bühler's theory of the spirit about deixis or “Bühler's ghost” itself means the world of virtualities which is created fantastically (an aspect which Bühler did not explain in detail) and, second, because the term “metaphysics” originally indicates a new way of dealing with the phenomenon little observed in the deixis which is the resurrection of the past in our indicial lives. I as soon as I point to something, I, at the same time, am leaving behind a life, a life which is indicial, full of signifiers, of which I cannot neglect them. With this act, I have already created a range of images in my mind regarding the apprehension of the object, with perception, I act, point, and speak. Already within the act of perceiving the object, before I even point to it, a series of coalescing images has already been created in my mind. The fundamental problem presented here is that it is not possible to think about existence without memory, just as it is not possible to think about the act of pointing (the deixis) without a retrospection of the past.