The subject of semiotics / Kaja Silverman.

"[This book] is intended as a methodological guide to a group of semiotic writings frequently taught in advanced undergraduate courses in North America and Britain, writings that are for the most part available in English. It should therefore be viewed as a supplementary and explanatory text ra...

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Main Author: Silverman, Kaja
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
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Table of Contents:
  • From sign to subject, a short history: Ferdinand De Saussure
  • Charles Sander Peirce
  • Roland Barthes
  • Jacques Derrida
  • Emile Benveniste
  • Primary and secondary processes: Early topography
  • Pleasure principle
  • Repression and disguise
  • Primary and secondary processes
  • Desire and signification
  • Similarity and contiguity: Condensation and displacement
  • Paradigm and syntagm
  • Metaphor and metonymy
  • facilitations
  • Subject: Freudian model
  • Lacanian model: Birth, territorialization, and lack
  • Imaginary
  • Signification
  • Symbolic
  • Suture: Discourse and subjectivity
  • Suture, the cinematic model
  • suture and ideology
  • Suture and sexual differences
  • Re-writing the classic text: Readerly text
  • Writerly text
  • Codes: Semic code
  • Hermeneutic code
  • Proairetic code
  • Symbolic code
  • Cultural codes.