Image: Flesh & Body /// Likeness: Mind & Soul

Man's Origin: Image & Likeness

Genesis 1:26:

“Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

:Image:

A. “An artificial imitation or representation of something” (OED)

B. “A constellation, regarded as a figure or delineation of a person, animal, or symbolic object”

From definition A and B, the following may be extracted: Delineation-> “tracing out something by lines”

• Trace; palimpsestic.
• Ghost-an absence that is paradoxically present through a haunting.

C. (a)as simulating the appearance of someone, or

considered as unreal; (b) as compared in some respect to a statue or idol;

From Definition C, the following may be extracted:

• Appearance; disappearance; reappearance; vanishing

Finally,

Imago (Latin) “copy, statue, picture” from imitari, “to copy; imitate”

Imagier (French) “to form a mental picture”

re-presenting: re-modeling : re-re: dada data.

An Image seems to mean a hollow copy. 

:Likeness:

Like:

A. “Having the same characteristics or qualities as some other person or thing; of approximately identical shape, size, colour, character, etc., with something else; similar; resembling; analogous

G. “Of two or more persons or things: Having the same or closely resembling characteristics; mutually similar; 

- “One who closely resembles another.”

A "likeness" seems to mean a close resemblance to the original.
what or which is the original?
In light of Genesis 1:26, I propose the following:
Image = Flesh & Body

Likeness = Mind & Soul (Corporeal)

The tautology of Genesis 1:26 seems redundant unless one takes image and likeness as different terms and not synonyms. The outline above illustrates a few definitions on the terms "image" and "likeness;" indeed, both mirror very similar definitions, yet it would be a mistake to discount the repetition of any word in a text considered holy scripture as mere wordiness. In this skein, the origin of humankind (in Judeo-Christian terms), one may interpret, finds its source in the image and likeness that God made mankind in.

what does this mean?

this might indicate that the mind and soul are connected to the likeness of humankind and that the flesh and body are connected to the Image of humankind. The original sin gave Adam and Eve awareness of their body and flesh (image); might they have lost their "likeness" to God at that moment? perhaps.

Main point:
the emptiness one perhaps feels might come from the lack of "likeness" to the original. Something's missing; we have the image, but have lost the likeness, and this is the quest that seems to torture, and which might be why we propitiate a holy nada.