The Architecture of Being: Toward a Symbolic Ontology of Emergence A Metaphysics Beyond Absence: On Pre-Form and Primordial Thought

This paper proposes a symbolic and recursive model for the emergence of being, challenging classical metaphysical accounts that rely on substance, divine fiat, or linear causality. Rather than conceiving existence as a stable presence, the study frames being as an echo—a reverberation originating within absence and shaped through symbolic articulation. Drawing on concepts from phenomenology, depth psychology, and process philosophy, the text develops the notion of symbolic ontogenesis, where mythic and archetypal structures prefigure form and structure. Positioned critically against the metaphysical architectures of Aristotle and Heidegger, and in dialogue with thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Henri Bergson, and Carl Jung, the paper argues that ontology must be rethought as a field of resonance rather than foundation. Concepts such as primordial memory, proto-affective vibration, and arche-ethics are introduced to articulate a non-linear, non-masculine architecture of being. Ultimately, the essay contends that the origin of being is not a commanding voice, but a receptive rhythm—a maternal grammar of emergence grounded in listening rather than assertion.