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The Bio-semiotic Roots of Metapsychology

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This paper provides an overview of the origins, vicissitudes, and abandonment of ‘metapsychology’, the psycho-biological scientific core of the Freudian opus, and introduces the authors’ key revisions. Although couched in the language of metaphor and analogy from 19th century physics, the conceptual foundations of Freud’s theories contained the seeds of a bio-semiotic theory of mind and of human nature in the natural world. Its updated, modernized, version opens the door to an inter-penetrative epistemology leading to universal principles of logical form, applicable to all types of vital inter-action.

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Aragno, A. The Bio-semiotic Roots of Metapsychology. Biosemiotics 3, 57–77 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-009-9069-x

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