The semiosphere of psychoanalysis: problem statement

Abstract

The author makes an attempt to consider psychoanalysis as a specific practice of sense-creation in the light of Yu. M. Lotman’s theory of semiosphere. The fundamental changes initiated by the psychoanalytic doctrine in various areas of sense-creation, in the very logic, dynamics and dramaturgy of forming cultural and personal senses are discussed. The author emphasizes the role of the psychoanalytic discourse when there is a transition from the logic of fact (Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Logical-Philosophical Treatise”) to the logic of sense/paradox (Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy). A brief description of the psychoanalytic semiosphere with its properties of heterogeneity, binarity, and asymmetry is offered.