The 2026 issue of Semiotika will be dedicated to structural psychoanalysis – a school of thought that is well known internationally but has so far appeared in Lithuania only in fragmentary form. We invite contributors to cultivate these emerging threads, to connect them like symptoms into a network, to search for underlying structures, and to come together for a reading of the discourse of the unconscious.
The impulse for this theme is connected both historically and directly to the present. On the one hand, it arises from the intrigue-filled parallel development of psychoanalysis and structuralism: from the contemporaneous trajectories of Sigmund Freud and Ferdinand de Saussure to the projects of Jacques Lacan and Algirdas Julius Greimas, which were planted in the same intellectual soil but grew separately. On the other hand, both theoretical traditions quickly became communities in their own right, expanded the boundaries of their objects of analysis, and today make a significant contribution to the study of artistic, social, and other forms of discourse.
Neither the subject nor its language is ever entirely self-transparent. Yet repressed and censored content should not be understood as chaotic; it is organized and meaningful. We propose to seek structures of such meanings in a wide range of utterances and narratives – both aesthetic and banal, both those considered true and those considered false. Accordingly, we welcome both theoretical contributions and articles devoted to the analysis of concrete objects (works of art, cultural phenomena, ideologies).
Thematic guidelines for article submissions:
• Psychoanalysis and structuralism: history, influences, polemics
• Psychoanalysis and theories of meaning: dialogue, tensions, contradictions
• Structural psychoanalysis and continental philosophy (phenomenology, hermeneutics, etc.)
• Psychoanalytic art criticism (literature, cinema, visual arts, conceptual art)
• Psychoanalytic approaches to contemporary ideologies and public discourse
• Critiques of psychoanalysis (Marxism, feminism, schizoanalysis, etc.)
Submission deadline: July 31, 2026
Please send your submission to both Nijolė Keršytė nijole.kersyte@flf.vu.lt and Augustas Sireikis augustas.sireikis@flf.vu.lt
Semiotika is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access academic journal. It publishes original research articles in Lithuanian, English, and French. No submission or publication fees are charged to authors. A detailed description of article structure, citation style, and other requirements can be found on the journal’s website in the “Guidelines for Authors” section.