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.
By:
Raul Moncayo,
Magdalena Romanowicz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 594g
ISBN: 9780367328634
ISBN 10: 0367328631
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 19 August 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
ABOUT THE AUTHORSINTRODUCTION 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
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