To feel and interpret an image

It is common to oppose, with regard to images in art, a symbolic hermeneutics and a phenomenology of the sensible (or an aesthetics of the sublime), a logic of meaning and a logic of sensation. The ambition of this article is twofold. It consists, on the one hand, in justifying the relevance of a hermeneutics of the image, in a relationship with the iconological current, by showing that interpreting more makes it possible to feel more. On the other hand, it consists in showing the limits of a hermeneutics of the image when it is reduced to the search for a hidden meaning and always claims to transform the sensible into the intelligible.