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(1981). Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 4:207-249

Metapsychology of Sadism and Masochism: A Bipolar Semiotic Model

María Carmen Gear, M.D. and Ernesto César Liendo, M.D.

Isomorphisms between the Semiotic and Psychoanalytic Models

Psychoanalysis and semiotics are disciplines of the human sciences with different objects and methods of study. Semiotics concerns itself with the description, explanation, and prediction of sign systems; psychoanalysis attempts to do the same with the psychic system. Each of these disciplines can be utilized by the other. There are certain similarities between their respective objects of study: the psychic structure of the observer will influence decisively the manner in which he interprets the signs that

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Associate Professors, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and Training Analysts, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Toronto.

1 Following Ferdinand de Saussure's (1916) theory, we consider a “sign” to be a psychological entity formed by the association of an image (o

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