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

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

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General MathematicsGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1782201718
ISBN13: 9781782201717
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2015
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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