Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: About the Symbol
6. Liminary Remarks 11
7. 1. The symbol in linguistics: Saussure and Hjelmslev 19
8. 2. The symbol in psycho-analysis: Freud 45
9. 3. The meeting of two symbols? 91
10. 4. Freud and his linguistics: Sperber, Abel, Schreber 103
11. Part II: The Way of the Signifier
12. 1. Saussurian signifier and Lacanian signifier 121
13. 2. “There is no metalanguage”: what does this mean? 143
14. Epilogue 165
15. bibliography 167
16. Index of names 175