Peirce, semiotics, and psychoanalysis
By: John Muller, Joseph Brent, editors
Contributors: Muller, John P., 1940-; Brent, Joseph
Series: Psychiatry and the humanities -- v. 15
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Peirce, Charles S. -- 1839-1914; Psychoanalysis -- Semiotics
Description: "The slow and steady rise of the reputation of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) has coincided with a greater appreciation for his work in semiotics. Once thought to be primarily a logician and pragmatist, he is now internationally honored as a pioneer theorist about how minds think with signs; icons, indexes, and symbols. Peirce's ideas about semiotics provide exactly the kind of representational theory that Freud's system lacks, proposing a thorough recasting of psychoanalytic thinking which rejoins idea and affect, self and other, thought and action, meaning and matter, inside and outside. The essays in this collection provide an introduction to Peirce and explore different implications of Peirce's theory of representation for psychoanalytic practice as well as for philosophical reflection."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes