Semiotic perspectives on clinical theory and practice medicine, neuropsychiatry, and psychoanalysis ; [based partly on a conference held on March 14, 1987 at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago

The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs which cover the whole spectrum of current nonlinear analysis and applications in various fields, such as optimization, control theory, systems theory, mechanics, engineering, and other sciences. One of its main objectives is to make available to the professional community expositions of results and foundations of methods that play an important role in both the theory and applications of nonlinear analysis. Contributions which are on the borderline of nonlinear analysis and related fields and which stimulate further research at the crossroads of these areas are particularly welcome. Editor-in-Chief Jürgen Appell, Würzburg, Germany Honorary and Advisory Editors Catherine Bandle, Basel, Switzerland Alain Bensoussan, Richardson, Texas, USA Avner Friedman, Columbus, Ohio, USA Umberto Mosco, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Louis Nirenberg, New York, USA Alfonso Vignoli, Rome, Italy Editorial Board Manuel del Pino, Santiago, Chile Mikio Kato, Nagano, Japan Wojciech Kryszewski, Toru?, Poland Simeon Reich, Haifa, Israel Please submit book proposals to Jürgen Appell. Titles in planning include Eduardo V. Teixeira, Free Boundary Problems: A Primer (2018) Lucio Damascelli and Filomena Pacella, Morse Index of Solutions of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations (2019) Rafael Ortega, Periodic Differential Equations in the Plane: A Topological Perspective (2019) Cyril Tintarev, Profile Decompositions and Cocompactness: Functional-Analytic Theory of Concentration Compactness (2020) Takashi Suzuki, Semilinear Elliptic Equations: Classical and Modern Theories (2021) Preface 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 K.: a Lacanian psychosis List of contributors Subject index