A Reconstruction of the Semiotic Model in Freud

Abstract

This is a research paper in the field of contemporary semiotics. To begin with, we should say, it is common but rather a mistake to talk about the French/De Saussurean tradition and the American/Peircean tradition in semiotics and ignore the psychoanalytic tradition as initiated by Freud. In fact, we have two Freud: Freud the semiotician and Freud the biologist--depending on which position we would like to take in reading Freud. Indeed, a significant model and perspective in the sign process (including human language and culture) and the unconsciousness has been suggested by Freud; this psychoanalytic model should be taken as a significant component of semiotics. In the present study, Freud's metapsychological model and his dream theory are taken as the main body of his psychoanalytic semiotics or semiotic psychoanalysis. And in my re-formulation of Freud into a semiotic model, aside from focusing upon the psychoanalytic orientation as such as it is, I'll pay particular attention to the possibility of making a dialogue between this psychoanalytic model of Freud and the phenomenological model of C.S. Peirce.