But to reach outside himself Bataille is forced, for instance in the idea of the ritual of sacrifice, to apply signrelations, to ritualize. The heterogeneous flow of meaning seems to be dependent of agreements and should according to his theory become homogeneous, in opposition of his own intentions. A metaphor of the type man is a plant means that man is with Lakoffs term target, or theme according to Halliday. What Lakoff calls source, or with Halliday rheme, is transferred to man and his special properties, reason, moral, art etc.will momentarily be annihilated for the advantage of lower biological properties that man shares with the plant. The aesthetics of Bataille functions as a downwardgoing in the great chain.
Man is seen as bestial and the material is transferred onto the cultural.
And what is descendant and isolated is also an estrangement, far away and lower. For Bataille estrangement is the main rhetoric device. In Bataille we find another narrative than in Breton. Man here develops through isolation and ejection. Bretons narrative on the other hand can be seen as an extension or a reconstruction of the lifeworld through union.