semiotic

semiology

semiotics

simulacra

is prior to meaning, evocative of the sound produced by the rhythmic babbling of small children who cannot yet speak.

Julia Kristeva calls this signifying capability which is not derived from the meanings of the words ‘the semiotic’. It evokes, she maintains, the sound produced by the rhythmic babbling of small children who cannot yet speak. The semiotic exists prior to the acquisition of meaning, and psychoanalysis links it with the drive towards either pleasure or death.

is sounds and rhythms that disrupt ‘thetic’ (rational) thematic meaning.

semiotic, the: sounds and rhythms that disrupt ‘thetic’ (rational) thematic meaning (Kristeva).

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