The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : June 2025
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 146
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98138
- ISBN 13 : 9781032999869
- ISBN 10 : 1032999861
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In The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses, Raul Moncayo uses the complex plane to evaluate analytic outcomes. Moncayo’s approach provides a study of the process and outcome of singular analyses that does not rely on the methods and questionnaires of psychotherapy or medical research.
With reference to topology and abstract mathematics, Moncayo explores the limits of the Cartesian plane for predicting the capacity for sublimation and positive outcome. By integrating the complex plane, Moncayo arrives at an exact number to ‘arithmetize’ symptoms and human capacities.
This book represents a new approach to Lacanian analysis and outcomes that will be of great interest to Lacanian analysts in practice and in training.
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This book adeptly develops a numerical model to mathematize psychoanalytic impact on practice. This work distances number theory from quantification, and this will have an impact on analytic institutions and medical practices. It reflects on the urge to empirically quantify the results of psychoanalysis and offers an alternative model.
Arka Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor of Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, IIT Gandhinagar, India
The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analysis brings together, in a fluent manner, insights from mathematics, psychoanalysis and Buddhism, while anchored in up-to-date developments in physics and biology.
Anca Carrington, author, The Unconscious as Space: From Freud to Lacan, and Beyond
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The subject of the real ‘All alone’
2. Narcissism
3. Is Psychiatry the healing of the Mind or the Brain?
4. Is the Brain organized by Language or Mathematics?
5. Using the Complex Plane to Evaluate Analytic Outcomes and the formation of the Brain
6. Complex Numbers shown in Binary Matrixes Treatment of the obsessional and hysterical structures
7. Conclusion
References
Appendix I - Standard Proven Probability that a Pair of Cards could be of the same color (same quality X).
Appendix II - The Philosophic and Psychoanalytic Concept of History.
Appendix III - The Sinthome in Joyce, Lacan, and Jung
About the Author(s)
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.
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