The Symbolic Code for Generative Communication

Abstract

The essay offered is based on the interconnection and the fruitful contamination between ‘gift’ and communication, where the expression ‘to relate’ means the communicative act leading a subject to make the whole experience of going from self to the other. The ‘initial impulse’ that can give life to a human relationship is always prevalently a communicative act. Following the thought of the sociologist, Pierpaolo Donati, an effort is made through the essay to answer the question about what should characterize this communicative act, so that it is the generator or regenerator of a social bond.