The unconscious as infinite sets : an essay in bi-logic / Ignacio Matte Blanco ; with a new foreword by Eric Rayner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matte Blanco, Ignacio.

Series:

Maresfield library.

Maresfield library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subconsciousness.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness. The logico-mathematical treatment of the subject is made easy because every concept used is simple and simply explained from first principles. Each renewed explanation of the facts brings the emergence of new knowledge from old material of truly great importance to the clinician and the theorist alike. A highly original book that ought to be read by everyone interested in psychiatry or in Freudian psychology."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE Introduction; PART TWO Indispensable Notions; PART THREE From the Unrepressed Unconscious to the Symmetrical Mode of Being; PART FOUR Symmetrical Being (Unrepressed Unconscious ) as Infinite Sets; PART FIVE The Infinite Sets and the Question of Measurement of Unconscious Processes; PART SIX On the Nature of Emotion; PART SEVEN The General Laws of the Bipolarity Symmetrical -Asymmetrical or Unconscious - Conscious; PART EIGHT A Retrospective Look and a General Perspective; PART NINE Space and Mind

Appendix: Emotion, Magic, the 'Numinosum' and the infinite . A Comment on Sartre Bibliography; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-468) and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92259-0

0-429-48359-7

1-283-06806-0

9786613068064

1-84940-012-1

9780429483592

OCLC:

723944506