The Topological Transformation of Freud's Theory
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2015
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 138
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 36657
- ISBN 13 : 9781782202578
- ISBN 10 : 1782202579
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‘The unconscious, according to Freud, has a structure. One can conjecture as to the relation between this structure and the structure found in mathematics. One of the strongest hypotheses that one can make is that the two structures are homological – they say the same thing. How to give sense to this hypothesis then becomes a problem in the field of the formalisation of psychoanalysis – a field that Jean-Gérard Bursztein opens up in his work. Philosophical and scientific problems of the structure of mathematics had already been raised in the French tradition by Jean Cavaillès and Albert Lautman, and subsequently by Jean Toussaint Desanti. Bursztein draws on these French programmes for the foundations of mathematics, as he formulates his constructions within this important and developing field.’
- Bernard Burgoyne, author of Drawing the Soul: Schemas and Models in Psychoanalysis, and co-editor of The Klein–Lacan Dialogues