Real jouissance of uncountable numbers : the philosophy of science within lacanian psychoanalysis /
Raul Moncayo and Magdalena Romanowicz.
- London : Karnac, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
COVER; CONTENTS; 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 psychoanalysisWEB RESOURCES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
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. This book differentiates between two types of void, and aligns them with the Lacanian concepts of a true and a false hole and the psychoanalytic theory of primary repression. Finally, through jouissance, the language of desire is re-joined to the formal marks of the object and the language of science. This explains the connection in Lacanian theory among logic, the Real, mathematics, and jouissance.