Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
This study proposes and tests theories involving first the origin and development of the novel, and second what the author has defined as a signifying practice in "poetic language" and pictorial works. She rejects the postulates of Freudian ego psychology, and argues the existence in language of a split subject divided between unconscious and conscious motivations; that is, between physiological processes and social constraints.
- Request Code
- ZLIBIO1034774
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Pages
- 305
- Language
- English
- Format
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN-13
- 9780231048064
- ISBN-10
- 0231048068