Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad This page intentionally left blank Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan John P. Muller | J Routledge Taylor &. Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1996 by Routledge Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor <& Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 1996 by Routledge Design: Jack Donner All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. The publisher greatfully acknowledges the following sources: China Men, by Maxine Hong Kingston, © by Maxine Hong Kingston, reprinted with per­ mission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1980, and Picador, London. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. © 1949 by Paul Bowles. First published by the Ecco Press in 1978. Joyce Carol Oates “Old Budapest” © by Joyce Carol Oates, originally published in the Kenyon Review, v.5, n.4, pp. 8-36. Reprinted with permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. from Still Lfe by A.S. Byatt. Copyright © 1985 A.S. Byatt, and with permsission from The Peters Fraser & Dunlap Group Ltd., London. Parts of the author s own work have been previously published in the following: “Language, Psychosis, and Spirit,” by John P. Muller, in: Attachment and the Therapeutic Process, Sacksteder, ed., 1987, pp. 99-116. “A Re-reading of Studies on Hysteria:The Freud-Breuer Break Revisited” in Psychoanalytic Psychology, v. 9, n. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 129-56. “The Mirror; Psychoanalytic Perspectives” in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, v. 5, n. 2,1985, pp. 233-52, by the Analytic Press. “Lacan and Kohut: From Imaginary to Symbolic Identification in the case of Mr. Z” in Self-Psychology: Comparisons and Contrasts, Detrick and Detrick, eds., published in 1989 by the Analytic Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Muller, John P., 1940- Beyond the psychoanalytic dyad : developmental semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan / John P. Muller p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Psychoanalysis and culture. 2. Symbolism (Psychology) 3. Semiotics. 4. Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981. 5. Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914. 6. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.1.Title. BF175.4.C84M85 1995 150.19'5—dc20 95-14600 CIP ISBN 13: 978-0-415-91068-2 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-0-415-91069-9 (pbk) To: William J. Richardson, S.J., Ph.D., teacher, colleague, friend This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Developmental Semiotics 1. Mother-Infant Mutual Gazing 13 2. Semiotic Perspectives on the Dyad 27 3. Developmental Foundations of Infant Semiotics 43 4. Intersubjectivity through Semiotics 61 II. Registers of Experience 5. The Real and Boundaries: Walking or Falling 75 into the Wild 6. Language, Psychosis, and Culture 91 7. A Semiotic Correlate of Psychotic States 105 8. The Ego and Mirroring in the Dyad 119 9. From Imaginary to Symbolic Identification 135 in the Case of Mr. Z 10. A Re-Reading of Studies on Hysteria 161 Conclusion 187 References 195 Name Index 221 Subject Index 226 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments This book spans more than a decade of writing; the first half was written while I was the Erik Erikson scholar in residence at the Austen Riggs Center, 1992-1993. I am warmly grateful to Edward Shapiro, M.D., and M. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., for making available to me an extraordinarily tranquil year among deeply reflective clinicians. Chapter 5 was chosen as the co-winner of the 1995 Deutsch Prize of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society Institute and was the Erikson Scholar lecture presented in May, 1993, at Riggs. Several of the later chapters appeared in earlier forms elsewhere. Chapter 6 was previously published as “Language, Psychosis, and Spirit” in Attachment and the Therapeutic Process: Essays in Honor of Otto Allen Will, Jr., M.D., edited by J. Sacksteder, D. Schwartz, and Y. Akabane. (New York: International Universities Press, 1987, pp. 99—116). Chapter 8 appeared as “Lacans Mirror Stage” in a 1985 issue on mirroring of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, volume 5, pp. 233—252. Chapter 9 was published in Self Psychology: Comparisons and Contrasts, edited by D. Detrick and S. Detrick. (Hillsdale, NJ:The Analytic Press, 1989, pp. 363-394). Chapter 10 was presented to the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and was previously published as “A Re-reading of Studies on Hysteria: The Freud-Breuer Break Revisited,” in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1992, volume 9, pp. 129-156. I am grateful to all those who have generously read various chapters, made numerous suggestions, and helped to set high standards for this kind of inquiry.