Annual Report, 12/7/2025

 

 

 

I haven't done one of these in quite a while.  My timing I guess has been thrown off. It can't have been the Covid thing, can it, which for me was really the Psoriasis thing; well maybe that's it. That stopped everything even my reading. 

Anyway, let me say this just to start. My almost daily attendance at my Group, 'Grounded and Connected', an online AA meeting with it's homebase in PEI Canada, has been going on for some time now, since the beginning of Covid, when I didn't catch Covid but came down with a horrendous case of Psoriasis, about which I have elaborated in previous posts and won't re-elaborate here, except to say that I bitched and complained, and struggled to get back in to a reading rhythm, but instead got into an obsession with the medical aspects of my disease, to the point where I was daring to go beyond High School Chemistry, which I did not excel in, and, and....Oh, Yeah! [Only to say that the aforesaid meeting has become a great comfort and joy to me, even aside from it being almost Christmas.]  

 

Sometime after beginning a plunge into Anzieu's, The Skin, I got seduced..., er, ahem, (now I flash on Foghorn Leghorn), "I say, I say, boy; did you say SEDUCED?"  Yes I guess so because I've read quite a bit about it by now, that is to say Semiotics. I've listed some if not all of the books having to do with the skin, [which, by the way, has segued, rather smoothly, into pre-natal developmental psychology and psychoanalysis] ...so don't let me repeat that; let's go directly to a list having to do with Semiotics. 

The following books I've read;  Introducing Semiotics, A Graphic Guide, by Paul Cobley;  

 Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art  Julia Kristeva;   

Handbook of Semiotics, Winfried Noth;  

 Dialogic Semiosis, An Essay on Signs and Meanings, Jorgan Dines Johansen, 

Introducing Semiotics, It's History and Doctrine, by John Deely, 

.....and I've bought copies of but haven't yet read The Essential Pierce, Voume 1 (1867-1893): Selected Philosophical Writings, edited by Nathan Houser   And I hope to upgrade my understanding so that one day I can read my copy of Umberto Eco's A Theory of Semiotics. ...So I guess Semiotics is my new hobby.  

For unrelated reading I'm reading Canetti on Crowds after having read LeBon on crowds; and finding that Canetti doesn't even refer to LeBon and he gets away with it, because, I guess, he's such a better writer.  

And now, my Annual Report is up to date, except to say that this month I'll be 83,  (Dec. 28), and am due for, and hope to get, a second hip replacement, for my left hip, so's I'll be symmetrical.