Unconscious Logic: An Introduction to Matte Blanco's Bi-Logic and Its Uses. New Library of Psychoanalysis, 21.

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XII, 180 p. Ex library copy (formally discarded), therefore minor traces of handling and library stamps. - Contents Acknowledgements 1 The background 2 Feeling and thinking The historical division between feeling and thinking Freud and logic Logic and psychoanalysis Logic and thought Logical truthfulness Emotional truthfulness Susanne Langer, symbolization and metaphor A view of emotion Location and recognition 3 Logic, symmetry, bi-logic and the unconscious The unconscious and generalization Asymmetry and symmetry The principle of symmetry and the unconscious The symmetrization of thoughtful propositions into symmetrical logic Accentuation of both symmetries and asymmetries in the unconscious Examples of symmetry and asymmetry Some modalities in which symmetrization can ordinarily occur Bi-logical dialectic and bi-modality Hierarchical levels of classification Intersubjective symmetrization 4 Bi-logic and Freud s characteristics of the unconscious Characteristics of the unconscious Negation The unconscious, abstraction, propositional functions and predicate thinking Some clinical illustrations using bi-logic 5 Bi-logic, affects and infinite sets The concept of infinity Infinite experiences Unrcpressed unconscious as infinite sets The unconscious dealing in extremes Emotion, infinity and thought A phenomenological-psychoanalytical-logical approach The first component of emotion The timeness of thinking and timelessness of feeling The second component of emotion: thinking Discussion 6 Psychic structure, space and dimensionality The stratified bi-logical structure The fundamental antinomy of being and world Space and mind Conclusions so far Possible emotional dimensions of the unconscious Three clinical examples of dimensionality Dimensionality of objects and the internal world 7 Bi-logic and central psychoanalytic concepts The sense organs and symmetrization Motive, drive, instinct and bi-logic Libidinal development The mechanisms of defence Love, hate and fantasy Emotion and unconscious Freud s id, ego and super-ego The self Objects and object relations 8 The therapeutic process The unfolding function in psychoanalytic therapy The quantum intellect-emotion Further suggestions about therapy arising out of bi-logic Some case illustrations Examples from psychoanalytic psychotherapy Conclusion 9 Bi-logic, a crossroads between disciplines? Piaget Lévi-Strauss Bateson Edelman Bion Conclusion 10 Complex systems, mathematical chaos and bi-logic Complex systems Mathematical chaos theory Unpredictability in living beings Chaos theory and psychoanalysis Mathematical chaos, unpredictability, infinity and bi-logic 11 Final summary References Name index Subject index. ISBN 9780415127257 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 405. N° de ref. del artículo 1236274

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