Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Note on citations -- Semiotic presuppositions of healing: the story of medicine / Baer, Eugen -- The psychodynamic foundation and semiotic reconstruction of psychosomatic medicine / Uexküll, Thure von -- A semiotic approach to alexithymia / Epstein, Phillip S. -- Pharmacosemiotics: where is the message in the drug? / Yates, F. Eugene -- Elements of semiotic theory relevant to psychoanalysis / Litowitz, Bonnie E. -- Psychoanalysis without foundations / Goldberg, Arnold -- Semiosis and its "other": notes on the psychoanalytic unconscious / Barratt, Barnaby B. -- Freud's "unconscious": a discussion of Barnaby B. Barratt's "Semiosis and its other: notes on the psychoanalytic unconscious" / Basch, Michael F. -- Peirce's notion of abduction and psychoanalytic interpretation / Kettner, Matthias -- The case of Frau Doktor ¿.: a Lacanian psychosis / Rubin, Bernard -- List of contributors -- Subject index -- Backmatter