Signs in action

pp. 39-65

in: Inna Semetsky, The edusemiotics of images, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013

Abstract

This chapter addresses the process of semiosis as an action of signs from the threefold perspective of Peirce's semiotics, Jung's depth psychology, and systems theory. The word sign is ambiguous. The notion of a sign as it pertains to Tarot edusemiotics follows Peirce's triadic conception so as to underline the dynamic character of a sign and the important role of this sign-component that Peirce called interpretant. A sign can be anything that stands for something else, its object, in such a capacity so that it generates yet another, different, sign: it is through the interpretant that a sign tends to become-other.