Signs and symbol in the sexual act

Henri Van Lier

pp. 91-100

in: Smith, Erling Eng (eds), Facets of eros, Berlin, Springer, 1972

Abstract

The human being lives in the midst of signs. One can even define the human being as the originating principle of signs, and with structuralism describe human consciousness as the void, the empty box through which signs change and eventually reorganize into new signs.