Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the series editor, Marcel Danesi, and Brill’s associate editor, Katie Short, for their encouragement and help, and the production staff at Brill for doing such an excellent job of designing and publishing the book. I also owe a debt of gratitude to Dirk vom Lehn and all the scholars, writers, and journalists such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Umberto Eco, Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel, Judith Butler, and Paul Ekman, whose ideas I used and often quoted from in writing this study of the psychoanalytic, sociological, and semiotics of personal identity.