ABSTRACT

The origins of the physical world with their transition between the indeterminable micro-physics and the determined nature of macro-physical phenomena, and the origins of psychological phenomena with their indeterminable early phases and their determinable final events are biosemiotic analogs. In both systems, one deals with units of a communication process. Although the author was aware in 1935 of the principal importance of the relationship—antagonism and complementarity—for the organization of man and his world of phenomena, he could not recognize properly the laws of this creative dialogue of evolution. On the basis of the author's own psychoanalytic work, he regarded the reduction of psychodynamics to two antagonistic but complementary forces justified but their theoretical foundation insufficient. Initially, from the point of view of biosemiotics, it was not permissible to describe a process psychologically or psychoanalytically without its connection to its bodily transmission and especially its relationship to the central nervous system (CNS).