Lingustics and psychoanalysis : Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan, and others / Michel Arrivé ; with a preface by Jean-Claude Coquet ; translated from the French by James Leader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arrivé, Michel.

Series:

Semiotic crossroads ; v. 4.

Semiotic crossroads ; v. 4

Standardized Title:

Linguistique et psychanalyse. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Meaning (Psychology).

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult not to find on a single page references to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning-passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short, the unconscious is linked to language. How could it be otherwise, if psychoanalysis is a cure through speech as indicated as early as 1881, by Fraülein Anna O.? The problem of the relationship between linguistic and psychoanalytic concepts necessarily arises. Until now this question has been examined main

Contents:

LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS FREUD,SAUSSURE, HJELMSLEV, LACAN AND OTHERS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; NOTES; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION; NOTES; First Part: About the Symbol; LIMINARY REMARKS; CHAPTER I. THE SYMBOL IN LINGUISTICS: SAUSSURE AND HJELMSLEV; The symbol in Saussure's text; The symbol in Hjelmslev; NOTES; CHAPTER II. THE SYMBOL IN PSYCHO-ANALYSIS: FREUD; 1. The mnemic symbol; 2. The oniric symbol (symbol 2); 3. The symbol as term in the process of symbolization: symbol 3; NOTES; TRANSLATOR'S NOTES

CHAPTER III. THE MEETING OF TWO SYMBOLS?2) The ability of symbols to signify opposites; 3) The problem of symbol formation; 1) Motivation; 2) Ambivalence; 3) The formation of symbolic objects; NOTES; CHAPTER IV. FREUD AND HIS LINGUISTS: SPERBER, ABEL, SCHREBER; NOTES; Second Part: The Way of the Signifier; CHAPTER I. SAUSSURIAN SIGNIFIER AND LACANIAN SIGNIFIER; NOTES; CHAPTER II. ""THERE IS NO METALANGUAGE"": WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?; 1) Internal Metalanguages; 2) External metalanguages; 3) Hjelmslevian metalanguage; NOTES; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-42445-2

9786613424457

90-272-7729-X

OCLC:

769344118