AS TRÊS CATEGORIAS PEIRCIANAS E OS TRÊS REGISTROS LACANIANOS - abstract

ARTIGO: AS TRÊS CATEGORIAS PEIRCIANAS E OS TRÊS REGISTROS LACANIANOS
DE: Maria Lucia Santaella Braga, Dpto de Comunicação e Semiótica da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC/SP
ED: Revista de Psicologia da USP, vol.10 n.2 São Paulo 1999

"Santaella, L. (1999) The Three Peirces Categories and the Three Lacans Registers. Psicologia USP, 10, (2), 81-91.

Abstract: The first part of this paper proposes a general comparison between Peirces three universal phenomenological categories of firstness, secondness, and thirdness on one hand and Lacans three registers, also called the conceptual categories of human reality, the categories of the imaginary, the real, and the symbolic on the other hand. The second part develops the comparative analysis between Peirce and Lacan even further, showing that the logic of the third category, which is the logic of the sign, can function as a guiding map towards the understanding of the complex interactions that the three registers, the imaginary, the real, and the simbolic, have with each other.

Index terms: Phenomenology. Peirce, Charles Sanders. Lacan, Jacques. Semiotics."