The notion of "symbol and symbolic meaning, in this sense, does not fit neatly into a 6-sided dissection (we murder to dissect, as another poet wrote).[p.s. on this idea of the symbolic sequences of signifier/ied/iers : as an example of just one among many types of this overlap phenomenon : see Mandelstam's essay Conversation About Dante, where he describes Dante's chains of metaphors - imag