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Tables of Contents for The Unconscious As Infinite Sets
Chapter/Section Title
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Foreword
xviii
 
Eric Rayner
Preface
xxv
 
Acknowledgments
xxviii
 
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1
22
Scope, Outline and Meaning of this Book
3
20
The difficulties of present-day psycho-analytic theory
3
7
Clinical facts, frame of reference and theory
5
2
Psycho-analytic theories or basic concepts have become manifestly insufficient
7
3
The scope and meaning of this book
10
5
The relation of the present approach to the basic concepts of instinct, energy and space
14
1
The relation to Freud's conception
14
1
Brief summary of contents
15
8
Part II
15
1
Part III
16
1
Part IV
16
2
Part V
18
1
Part VI
18
1
Part VII
19
1
Part VIII
20
1
Part IX
20
3
PART II: INDISPENSABLE NOTIONS
23
38
Some Logico-Mathematical Concepts
25
10
A Reference to My Previous Work
35
26
Foreword
35
1
Expression in symbolic logic of the characteristics of the system Ucs. or the logic of the system Ucs
35
6
Introduction and formulation of the problem
35
2
Formation of two principles
37
4
Application of these principles to the characteristics of the system Ucs
41
6
Absence of time
41
1
Displacement
42
1
Replacement of external by psychical reality
43
1
Lack of mutual contradiction and condensation
43
2
Absence of negation
45
2
Summary
47
1
Comments and explanations (especially for mathematical logicians and philosophers)
47
14
Explanation
47
1
The law or principle of contradiction in the light of the principle of symmetry
47
4
A geometrical interpretation of the principles of contradiction and of symmetry
51
2
Does the proper part become improper part?
53
1
The application of the principle of symmetry actually observed is not total but limited, in a degree varying according to the case
54
1
Logic? And if so, what logic?
55
3
The emotional origin of `aseptic', contradiction-respecting bivalent logic
58
1
From Logos to something larger: man
59
2
PART III: FROM THE UNREPRESSED UNCONSCIOUS TO THE SYMMETRICAL MODE OF BEING
61
74
A Formulation of the Question
63
9
Freud's Development of the Concept of Unrepressed Unconscious (a Historical Survey)
72
8
Conclusion
78
2
The Interrelations between Repressed, Unrepressed, Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, Id, Ego, Super-Ego
80
8
A preliminary warning
80
1
Repressed unconscious contents and asymmetrical relations
80
2
Unrepressed unconscious contents, asymmetrical relations and the three instances
82
1
Repressed unconscious contents and symmetrical relations
82
2
Unrepressed unconscious, symmetrical relations, id, ego and super-ego
84
4
The Two Modes of Being in Man
88
11
Some brief preliminary reflections about happening and being
88
2
Back from the psychical qualities to the psychical modes of being
90
5
A question of terminology
95
1
Consciousness and `the unconscious'
96
3
The Interrelations between the Two Modes of Being. The Translating or Unfolding Function
99
18
Foreword
99
1
Logic, thinking and being
99
3
The reality behind the appearances
102
1
The mutual dependence of the two modes of being
103
1
A few disconnected yet connected questions
104
3
Eros, Thanatos, symmetry and asymmetry
104
2
Generalising symmetry and particularising asymmetry
106
1
Asymmetrical and symmetrical: personal and impersonal
106
1
The translating or unfolding function
107
1
A preliminary discussion about the meaning of `making conscious' and `becoming conscious'
108
1
A study of becoming conscious or entering consciousness
108
5
A clinical example
111
2
The outward appearances of symmetrical being and the contrast between the translating function and lifting of repression
113
4
A reflection about memory traces
114
1
A word of comment
115
2
The Place of the Primary and Secondary Processes in the Present Conception
117
4
The Crisis of the Threefold Conception in the Light of the Conception of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Being. The Place of the Notion of Object
121
11
Formulation of the problem
121
1
The unsatisfactory aspects of the threefold conception
121
3
A shifting of accent
122
2
The `three functional self' in the light of symmetrical and asymmetrical being. A unified view of both conceptions of Freud
124
1
The place of the notion of object
125
4
The name `object'
125
1
What is an object?
126
3
Man, where is thy unity?
129
1
From repression to a more general concept or a generalisation of the concept of repression
130
1
The lateral insertion of instincts on mind
131
1
A Short Summary
132
3
PART IV: SYMMETRICAL BEING (UNREPRESSED UNCONSCIOUS) AS INFINITE SETS
135
52
The Problem
137
9
The identity between part and whole within the class or set
137
3
The case of part objects
140
4
The law of either positive or negative infinite sets
144
1
Summary
144
2
A Discussion of Analytical Findings in Terms of the Notion of Infinite Set
146
15
Foreword
146
1
Interpretation of the principle of symmetry in terms of infinite sets
146
6
Discussion of some difficulties
147
3
Symmetrical unconscious seen as function capable of assuming different values
150
1
Conscious-unconscious, symmetrical-asymmetrical: gradual transitions or all-or-nothing?
151
1
The unique position of psycho-analysis among scientific systems. Methodological consequences
152
3
Some propositional functions are defined in terms of variables, the collection of whose values may be considered as infinite sets
155
2
The classes or sets considered by the system unconscious are of the type which is defined by infinite values of the x and of the conditions y,q,z, etc., defining the class or set
157
2
Extensive and intensive infinite sets
159
2
Infinite Sets and Levels of (Unconscious) Depth
161
16
Foreword
161
1
The infinite is unevenly visible in mental manifestations. Interaction between various levels
161
4
Infinite set and concrete element as seen in a case
165
2
Class and individual in analytic therapy
167
1
Presentational level and level of greatest activity
167
1
The simultaneous experiencing of the individual and the class
168
3
Summary
170
1
Some problems and perspectives
171
1
The magnitude of emotion and the question of levels
172
3
The coexistence of various magnitudes of the same variable of a given emotion
175
1
Love, hate and the death instinct
176
1
Omnipotence, Omniscience and Idealisation
177
7
Emotion and the Infinite Sets
184
3
PART V: THE INFINITE SETS AND THE QUESTION OF MEASUREMENT OF UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES
187
26
The Notions of Measurement Employed in this Study
189
5
Foreword
189
1
Magnitude and quantity
189
1
Measurement, conceptual and practical
190
1
Measuring of space
191
1
Other physical phenomena
192
1
The scales of measurement
193
1
Measurement in the Psychical World
194
8
The physical and the psychical in man
194
1
Public and private
194
1
The notion of indicant
195
1
What is the correspondence between the psychical and the physical, within the psycho-physical unity: one-one, one-many, many-one or simply identity?
196
4
Summary and restatement
200
2
Towards the Measurement of the Unconscious Mental Processes
202
11
Foreword
202
1
Various psychical phenomena have unequal possibilities of measurement
202
3
About making public the privacy of the mind
203
2
The study of the intimacy of the mind with the help of the method of free association
205
5
Towards measuring unconscious mental processes
205
3
Instead of one bi-univocal, infinite bi-univocal correspondences
208
2
The merging of the conceptually measurable into the conceptually not measurable
210
1
Concluding remarks
211
2
PART VI: ON THE NATURE OF EMOTION
213
96
A Phenomenological Psycho-Analytical-Logical Approach
215
8
Justification
215
2
Emotion, feeling, affect and sentiment
217
1
Emotion appears as a psycho-physical event
217
2
In its purely psychological aspects emotion is not a simple manifestation but reveals at least two fundamental constituents
219
2
Summary
221
1
Comparison between this and other views of emotion
221
2
A Closer Study of Sensation-Feeling
223
14
The question of terminology and its implications
223
1
The passage from sensation-feeling to image and perception
224
1
Unconscious sensations
225
1
Introspection and time. Attention and its objects
226
3
The possibility of `pure' sensations
229
2
Sensation and thinking and their relation to macular and peripheral consciousness
231
2
The `timeness' of thinking and the `timelessness' of feeling
233
2
A summary of all the above on sensation-feeling
235
2
The Second Component of Emotion: Thinking (Establishment of Relations)
237
15
Foreword
237
1
Some examples
237
4
The thinking implicit in emotions entails generalisation, maximisation and irradiation
241
2
Expression of the above in terms of symbolic logic
243
2
A closer look at the logic of emotional thinking
245
1
Summary, perspective and meaning of the views presented above
246
1
Comparison of our view with views put forward in the relevant literature
247
5
The literature
248
2
A comment
250
2
The Question of the Measurability of Emotion: a General Formulation. Sensation-Feeling and Measurement
252
14
Foreword
252
1
A warning
253
1
Introduction: a summary and some comments
253
1
Identification of the stimulus
254
2
Sensation-feeling so far as it is oriented inwards: the `internal' or intimate aspects
256
3
A brief summary
259
1
The difference between macular and peripheral sensation-feeling in their relation to measurability
259
2
Sensation-feeling, perception and imagination
261
1
Further remarks on macular and peripheral consciousness in sensation-feeling
262
4
The Question of the Measurability of Emotion. Emotions as Infinite Sets
266
10
Foreword
266
1
The possibility of measuring the `thinking aspect' of emotion. Emotion as infinite set
266
6
Introduction
266
1
In their `thinking aspect' emotions deal with classes with infinite values of the variables x and y, q, z, etc.
267
1
Some reflections on chairness and femininity
268
3
The various infinites implicit in emotion
271
1
Emotion: non-measurable and measurable. Emotion as mother of the measurable and as mother of language
272
2
Emotion: an intensive infinite set or infinite within finite limits?
274
2
Conclusion
274
2
The Translating Function and the Quantum of Intellect-Emotion
276
28
Foreword
276
1
A clinical example
277
2
A logical analysis of this case
277
2
A comment on the `lateral insertion of instinct into mind'
279
2
A short comment on the level of logical complexity of the present approach
281
2
Presence and density of, and interaction between, symmetrical and asymmetrical relations
283
2
The case of the products of mental activity
285
1
Translating function, `light' and `darkness'
285
3
A question repeated: is there thinking in emotion?
285
1
A general concept comprising both thinking and feeling
286
1
The `light' and `darkness' of thinking and feeling
287
1
A further look at the relationship between symmetrical and asymmetrical being. A structural origin of dynamics
288
3
The `pouring' of emotion into thinking or the `extraction' of thinking from emotion
290
1
Various aspects of the work of translation as seen in a clinical example
291
6
A preliminary comment on the above data
292
2
Symmetrical emotion and asymmetrical awareness (consciousness)
294
3
The quantum intellect-emotion
297
2
The potentialities of the translating function and the meaning of interpersonal relations
299
1
Possibility of measuring emotion as an infinite set
300
1
`Where id was, there ego shall be'
300
2
The respective roles of lifting of repression and the translating function. The two types of barriers
302
2
The Place of Emotion in the Psycho-Analytical Conception
304
5
Summary
307
2
PART VII: THE GENERAL LAWS OF THE BIPOLARITY SYMMETRICAL-ASYMMETRICAL OR UNCONSCIOUS-CONSCIOUS
309
60
A Perspective of the Interaction Unconscious-Conscious (Symmetrical-Asymmetrical)
311
11
Foreword
311
1
The principle of generalisation as a corollary of the principle of symmetry or the principle of symmetry as a generalising principle
311
3
Psychological and logical derivation
312
2
The principle of symmetry as a `homogenising' agent
314
1
Discussion of an obvious objection: the principle of symmetry predicts everything and, hence, it predicts nothing
314
2
The principle of symmetry as a generalising principle and asymmetry as a restraining condition
316
2
Sociability and individuality
318
1
The notion of conflict seen in the light of the polarity symmetrical-asymmetrical
319
1
Being, happening and consciousness
320
2
An Alternative Formulation of the Bipolarity Symmetrical-Asymmetrical (Unconscious-Conscious)
322
47
Foreword
322
1
Some reflections on logic. Symmetrical being as seen from the outside and from the inside-outside
322
27
An indispensable explanation
322
1
The definition of relation requires the concept of asymmetrical relation
323
1
The relation between the concept of (asymmetrical) relation and those of contiguity (space) and succession (time)
324
2
Some significant notions required
326
3
Linguistics, thinking, logic and the designata (:the world)
329
1
The triad of something, something else and relation
330
3
An analysis of (logical) syntax in terms of the triad
333
3
From (logical) syntax to semantics. The concept of individual
336
1
A closer look at the triad
337
5
The co-creation of S, SE and R at the level of semantics
342
2
A brief psycho-analytical comment
344
1
Further reflections on the starting zones of logic
345
1
Symmetrical being as seen from the outside and from the inside-outside
346
3
Formulation of new principles and their corollaries
349
4
The characteristics of the system unconscious as seen from this conception
353
1
Condensation
353
1
Displacement
353
1
Replacement of external by psychical reality
353
1
Timelessness (and spacelessness)
353
1
Absence of contradiction
353
1
A comparison between the symbolic logic formulation and the new formulation
353
5
Can one formulation follow from the other?
355
1
Two possible advantages of the new formulation
356
2
A comment on Wittgenstein, Sheffer, Whitehead and Russell, and von Wright as seen in terms of the present approach
358
11
Wittgenstein
358
2
A comment on Sheffer's only not-defined concept of the propositional calculus
360
3
The principle of contradiction and p/q
363
1
A final summary comment on Sheffer
363
1
A short comment on Whitehead and Russell's not-defined concepts
363
1
The principle or law of contradiction, asymmetrical relations and spatio-temporality
364
1
Von Wright
365
4
PART VIII: A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AND A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE
369
28
The Meaning and Potentialities of the Approach Put Forward in this Book
371
22
Foreword
371
1
The view of emotion put forward here in the light of clinical and everyday experience
371
1
Introduction
371
1
The usually unseen background of emotion
371
1
Mental pathology in the light of the interaction between the two logics
372
1
Thinking (intellect) and feeling (emotion)
372
4
A very brief historical reference
372
2
The reformulation of the antithesis thinking (knowing)-feeling. Consequences of it
374
2
A conclusion which is also a starting-point: the reformulation of the antithesis conscious-unconscious
376
5
The rapprochement of the antithesis thinking-feeling and conscious-unconscious. Consequences for the structural and object relations conceptions of the mind
381
1
An unexpected and yet poinlessly reached result: the melting of the general outline of the psyche and its recasting to comprise the unconscious
382
2
Psycho-analysis and logic: something to be rejected or a fertile association?
384
1
The clinical use of the present approach
385
2
Asymmetrical-symmetrical and mass-energy: logic, psycho-analysis and physics
387
4
Towards a unified view of man and nature
391
2
Psycho-analysis, science and humanism
392
1
Towards the mastery of emotion
392
1
Summing-Up
393
4
PART IX: SPACE AND MIND
397
60
Formulation of the Problem
399
10
Some general notions about space
399
3
The concept of space
399
1
The varieties of space
400
2
The meaning of the geometrical representation of physical phenomena
402
1
The use of space in the study of mental phenomena
402
2
Old prejudices regarding space and mind
402
1
The scientific knowledge of the external world owes its progress to the development of the spatial conception
403
1
The lagging-behind of our conceptions about mental phenomena would be linked to the rejection of space in their study
403
1
Everyday and scientific language makes constant and inevitable use of space when referring to mental phenomena
404
1
The concept of metaphor
404
3
Metaphor
404
1
Further precision with the help of symbolic logic
405
1
The metaphorical references to psychical phenomena observed in everyday language
406
1
Scientific psychology is permeated with metaphor
406
1
Conclusions
407
2
The only reasonable attitude, therefore, is taking seriously the concept of space in the study of mental phenomena
407
1
The study of the use of space in mental phenomena reveals spatial conceptions which are different from those habitually employed in the description of material phenomena
408
1
Brief Notions about Geometrical Space
409
6
Foreword
409
1
Point, line, plane and volume
409
1
Geometrical approach to the space of n-dimensions
409
6
Multidimensional Space, the Unconscious and Dreams
415
10
Preliminary explanation
415
1
The problem
415
2
General considerations about multiple dimension and the characteristics of the unconscious
415
1
Considerations of representability
416
1
Condensation
417
1
A proposed approach
417
6
An attempt at ordaining the above in terms of multidimensional space
417
1
The means of representation in dreams
418
4
The example of a dream
422
1
A comment on the dream
423
1
Conclusions
423
2
The Paradox Part-Whole. The Unfolding Function
425
5
The problem
425
1
A first example
426
1
A second example
427
2
A short comment
429
1
Mental Tension as Seen in Terms of the Present Approach
430
9
General remarks
430
3
The concept of tension
430
1
The scale of tensions
431
2
A few further points
433
6
The role of regression
433
1
The role of imagination (fantasy)
434
1
Observations on the obsessive neurosis
434
1
Further reflections on the third grade of the scale of tensions
435
2
A final comment
437
2
Pre-Orgastic Experiences and Fantasies of Sexual Intercourse
439
8
Formulation of the problem
439
2
The multiple fantasies
441
3
Discussion of these findings
444
3
Sexual tension at the moment of appearance of the above experiences. Comments
444
1
Further considerations
445
2
Miscellanea
447
5
Emotion and thinking
447
1
Body and soul
447
1
Mental phenomena: really or only metaphorically spatial?
448
1
Further reflections on the possibility of imagining dimensions
449
2
Concluding remarks
451
1
Possibility of a Geometrical Representation of the Principle of Symmetry. Need for Multidimensional Space
452
5
The meaning of geometrical representation
452
1
Possibility of geometrical representation of the principle of symmetry (II) and of its various corollaries
452
4
A short comment
456
1
Appendix: Emotion, Magic, the `Numinosum' and the Infinite. A Comment on Sartre
457
6
Bibliography
463
6
Index
469