The Real Jouissance of Uncountable Numbers: The Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Softcover

Moncayo, Raul; Romanowicz, Magdalena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782201718 ISBN 13: 9781782201717

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782201718
• ISBN 13: 9781782201717
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236