The Real Jouissance of Uncountable Numbers - 9780367328634

Taylor & Francis

The Real Jouissance of Uncountable NumbersThe Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis\nAuthor(s): Raul Moncayo, Magdalena Romanowicz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367328634, 978-0367328634\nSynopsis\nLacan 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, .