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Psychoanalysis and semiotics are disciplines of the human sciences with different objects and methods of study. Semiotics concerns itself with the description, explanation, and prediction of sign systems;1 psychoanalysis attempts to do the same with the psychic system. Each of these disciplines can be utilized by the other. There are certain similarities between their respective objects of study: the psychic structure of the observer will influence decisively the manner in which he interprets the signs that