Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Note on citations -- Semiotic presuppositions of healing: the story of medicine -- The psychodynamic foundation and semiotic reconstruction of psychosomatic medicine -- A semiotic approach to alexithymia -- Pharmacosemiotics: where is the message in the drug? -- Elements of semiotic theory relevant to psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalysis without foundations -- Semiosis and its "other": notes on the psychoanalytic unconscious -- Freud's "unconscious": a discussion of Barnaby B. Barratt's "Semiosis and its other: notes on the psychoanalytic unconscious" -- Peirce's notion of abduction and psychoanalytic interpretation -- The case of Frau Doktor Κ.: a Lacanian psychosis -- List of contributors -- Subject index -- Backmatter