The importance of the third dimension

Abstract

Handwriting differs from writing by other means because it contains traces of the affective state of the person who writes. However, today it is more and more frequent to observe individuals who have lost the habit of a current use of handwriting, in particular cursive writing, replaced by the invention of a strange cursive obtained by combining small caps, but unable to allow a rapid development of the writing process. The conquest in writing is also an expressive conquest through the relationship that is established between the surface that receives the message, the medium that translates a thought into signs and the same thought that manifests itself. In this sense, constant exercise is essential for language improvement and the formulation of complex thoughts. The recovery of the habit of writing manually is then essential to re-establish the continuity between thought and the ability to organize one’s own activity, one’s behaviour in function of the development of an original idea, of an invention that is proper to the subject who formulates and communicates the message. When the formulation of the message has only two dimensions, a more effective representation of reality requires that a third dimension be considered, the one that gives spatial consistency to the message, opening a space of sensation in which affectivity finds a way to manifest itself.