ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
part |62 pages
Developmental Semiotics
chapter |13 pages
Mother–Infant Mutual Gazing
chapter |16 pages
Semiotic Perspectives on the Dyad
chapter |18 pages
Developmental Foundations of Infant Semiotics
chapter |12 pages
Intersubjectivity through Semiotics
part |114 pages
Registers of Experience