CONTENTS
1. From Sign to Subject, A Short History
a)FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE 4
b)CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE 14
C) ROLAND BARTHES 25
d)JACQUES DERRIDA 32
e)EMILE BENVENISTE 43
2. Primary and Secondary Processes 54
a)THE EARLY TOPOGRAPHY 55
b)THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE 56
C) REPRESSION AND DISGUISE 60
d)PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PROCESSES
e)DESIRE AND SIGNIFICATION 77
3.Similarity and Contiguity 87
a)CONDENSATION AND DISPLACEMENT
b)PARADIGM AND SYNTAGM 102
C) METAPHOR AND METONYMY 109
d) FACILITATIONS 122
4. The Subject 126
a)The freudian model 132
b)The lacanian model 149
l)Birth, territorialization, and lack 151
ii)The imaginary 157
iii)signification 162
iv)the symbolic 178
5. Suture 194
a)Discourse and subjectivity 195
b)suture: the cinematic model 201
c) suture and ideology 215
d) suture and sexual difference 222
6.Re-Writing the Classic Text 237
a)The readerly text 243
b)The writerly text 246
c) the codes 250
l) The semic code 251
ii) The hermeneutic code 257
III)The proairetic code 262
iv) The symbolic code 270
v) The cultural codes 274
Notes 285
Selected Bibliography in English 294
Index 301