Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad: Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce and Lacan

by John P. Muller

Overview

In this original work of psychoanalytic theory, John Muller explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Muller explores how Lacan's way of understanding experience through three dimensions--the real, the imaginary and the symbolic--can be useful both for thinking about cultural phenomena and for understanding the complexities involved in treating psychotic patients, and develops Lacan's perspective gradually, presenting it as distinctive approaches to data from a variety of sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317795940
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John P. Muller is Chief Psychologist and Director of Education at The Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and author (with William J. Richardson) of Lacan and Language: A Reader's Guide to Ecrits.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Developmental Semiotics; Chapter 1 Mother–Infant Mutual Gazing; Chapter 2 Semiotic Perspectives on the Dyad; Chapter 3 Developmental Foundations of Infant Semiotics; Chapter 4 Intersubjectivity through Semiotics; Part 2 Registers of Experience; Chapter 5 The Real and Boundaries; Chapter 6 Language, Psychosis, and Culture; Chapter 7 A Semiotic Correlate of Psychotic States; Chapter 8 The Ego and Mirroring in the Dyad; Chapter 9 From Imaginary to Symbolic Identification in the Case of Mr. Z; Chapter 10 A Re-Reading of Studies on Hysteria; conclusion Conclusion;