The Real Jouissance of Uncountable Numbers

The Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78220-171-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Lacan critiqued imaginary intuition for confusing direct perception with unconscious pre-conceptions about people and the world. The emphasis on description goes hand in hand with a rejection of theory and the science of the unconscious and a belief in the naive self-transparency of the world. At the same time, knowing in and of the Real requires a place beyond thinking, multi-valued forms of logic, mathematical equations, and different conceptions of causality, acausality, and chance. This book explores some of the mathematical problems raised by Lacan's use of numbers and the interconnection between mathematics and psychoanalytic ideas. Within any system, mathematical or otherwise, there are holes, or acausal cores and remainders of indecidability. It is this senseless point of non-knowledge that makes change, and the emergence of the new, possible within a system.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moncayo, Raul

Romanowicz, Magdalena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ABOUT THE AUTHORS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Phenomenology, empiricism, hermeneutics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis CHAPTER TWO Frege and Lacan and the triadic/quaternary theory of the signifier CHAPTER THREE The object, the number, and the signifier/name/statement CHAPTER FOUR The singular of the singular: singular propositions and the not-all CHAPTER FIVE On probability, causality, and chance CHAPTER SIX The third of the Real and the two voids CHAPTER SEVEN Logical and mathematical foundations CHAPTER EIGHT Phi, phi, and i CHAPTER NINE Prime numbers theorem and the zeta function in psychoanalysis WEB RESOURCES REFERENCES INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Raul Moncayo is supervising analyst, founding member, and faculty of the San Francisco Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis (LSP). He has a private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. He is visiting professor and adjunct faculty both in the US and other countries. Dr Moncayo is former director of training for a large psychiatric clinic for the City of San Francisco, and the author of five books and multiple papers published in professional journals