Note-[brackets] denote essay in Message in the Bottle collection not focused on language.
"Symbol as Hermeneutic in Existentialism: A Possible Bridge from Empiricism." Philosophy and Phenomenonlogical Research, 16 (June 1956), 522-30. Essay in MB as "Symbol as Hermeneutic in Existentialism."
["The Man on the Train: Three Existential Modes." Partisan Review, 23 (Fall 1956), 478-94. Essay, in MB as "The Man on the Train."]
"Semiotic and a Theory of Knowledge." The Modern Schoolman, 34 (May 1957), 225-46. Essay, in MB.
"The Act of Naming." Forum, 1 (Summer 1957), 4-9. Essay, in MB as "The Mystery of Language."
"Metaphor as Mistake." The Sewanee Review, 64 (Winter 1958), 79-99. Essay, in MB.
"Symbol, Consciousness, and Intersubjectivity." The Journal of Philosophy, 55 (17 June 1958), 631-41. Essay, in MB.
["The Loss of the Creature." Forum, 2 (Fall 1958), 6-14. Essay, in MB.] "Culture: The Antinomy of the Scientific Method." The New Scholasticism, 32 (October 1958), 443-75. Essay, in MB.
"The Message in the Bottle." Thought, 34 (Autumn 1959), 405-33. Essay, in MB.
"Naming and Being." The Personalist, 41 (Spring 1960), 148-57. Essay, in Signposts in a Strange Land [SS].
"The Symbolic Structure of Interpersonal Process." Psychiatry: A Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes, 24 (February 1961), 39-52. Essay, in MB.
"Symbol and Existence: A Study of Meaning," unpublished manuscript of 318 pages compiled in 1960-61; in Percy collection at UNC-Chapel Hill; miscellaneous chapters published as essays.
["Notes for a Novel about the End of the World." Katallagete, 3 (Winter 1967-68), 7-14. Essay, in MB.]
"Toward a Triadic Theory of Meaning." Psychiatry: A Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes, 35 (February 1972), 1-19. Essay, in MB.
"The Delta Factor." The Southern Review, 11 (January ,1975), 29-64. Essay, in MB.
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1975.
"A Theory of Language." First published in MB, 298-327.
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983. Especially "A Semiotic Primer of the Self," pp. 86-126.
"The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind," excerpted as "The Divided Creature" in The Wilson Quarterly, 13 (Summer 1989), 77-87. Also printed in Design for Arts in Education (January 1, 1990) Vol. 91, No. 3, p. 2. In SS pp. 271-291.
Signposts in a Strange Land. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991. Listed essays.
"Is a Theory of Man Possible?". In SS, pp. 111-129. [Unpublished before SS.]
"Notes for a Novel about the End of the World." Katallagete, (Winter 1967-68), 7-14. Essay, in MB. Also published in Katallagete, 3 (1970): 5-12.
"The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?" Michigan Quarterly Review, 16 (Fall 1977), 359-73. Essay, in Signposts in a Strange Land [SS].
How to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and Catholic. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1984. Essay, in SS.
Diagnosing the Modern Malaise. New Orleans: Faust, 1985. Essay, in SS.
"The Diagnostic Novel: On the Uses of Modern Fiction," Harper's, 272 (June 1986), 39-45.
Novel Writing in an Apocalyptic Time. New Orleans: Faust, 1986. Essay, in SS.
"Physician as Novelist," Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture (Rockford, IL) 3 (May 1989), 10-12. Essay, in SS.
"The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry," America 96 (January 5, 1957) 391-93, (January 12, 1957) 415-18. Essay, in SS.