The Subject of Semiotics
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 1983
317 pages
978-0-19-977215-5 (ISBN)
Description
This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.
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Kaja Silverman
The Subject of Semiotics
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08/1985
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- 1 From Sign to Subject, A Short History
- a) FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE
- b) CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE
- C) ROLAND BARTHES
- d) JACQUES DERRIDA
- e) EMILE BENVENISTE
- 2 Primary and Secondary Processes
- a) THE EARLY TOPOGRAPHY
- b) THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
- C) REPRESSION AND DISGUISE
- d) PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PROCESSES
- e) DESIRE AND SIGNIFICATION
- 3 Similarity and Contiguity
- a) CONDENSATION AND DISPLACEMENT
- b) PARADIGM AND SYNTAGM
- C) METAPHOR AND METONYMY
- d) FACILITATIONS
- 4 The Subject
- a) THE FREUDIAN MODEL
- b) THE LACANIAN MODEL
- i) BIRTH, TERRITORIALIZATION, AND LACK
- ii) THE IMAGINARY
- iii) SIGNIFICATION
- iv) THE SYMBOLIC
- 5 Suture
- a) DISCOURSE AND SUBJECTIVITY
- b) SUTURE: THE CINEMATIC MODEL
- C) SUTURE AND IDEOLOGY
- d) SUTURE AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE
- 6 Re-Writing the Classic Text
- a) THE READERLY TEXT
- b) THE WRITERLY TEXT
- C) THE CODES
- i) THE SEMIC CODE
- ii) THE HERMENEUTIC CODE
- iii) THE PROAIRETIC CODE
- iv) THE SYMBOLIC CODE
- v) THE CULTURAL CODES
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography in English
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- R
- S
- T
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