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,...
In this original work of psychoanalytic theory, John Muller explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectiv...
This work 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. It illustrates 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.
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the Frenc...
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization, artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This emerging...
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological ...
The relationship between psyche and some is extremely important from a psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspective. This book reflects the cutting edge intersection of analytic theory, semiotics, biology, and psycholinguistics.
The relationship between psyche and some is extremely important from a psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspective. This book reflects the cut...
Jacques Lacan's seminar on -The Purloined Letter- at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. His far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, Norman Holland, and others.
Jacques Lacan's seminar on -The Purloined Letter- at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. ...
