By Jorge L. Ahumada
This e-book explores the medical approaches of psychoanalysis through charting smooth advancements in common sense and making use of them to the research of insight. supplying an epistemic method of scientific psychoanalysis this e-book areas worth at the scientific interpretations of either the analysand and analyst and engages in a critique on merely linguistic techniques to psychoanalysis, which forsake the most important dimensions of scientific practice.
Drawing at the paintings of key 20th century thinkers together with Jerome Richfield, Ignacio Matte-Blanco, Gregory Bateson and the pioneering contribution on perception made via James Strachey, subject matters of dialogue include:
- the constitution and function of medical interpretation
- interpretation and creationism
- body, that means and language
- logical degrees and transference.
As such, this publication could be of serious curiosity to all these within the psychoanalytic box, specifically these eager to research extra in regards to the learn of perception and its dating to medical techniques of psychoanalysis.
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In this area much if not most is still to be studied. But it can be said with some confidence that ostensive insight – that is, knowledge by acquaintance with unconscious processes – evolves through a tolerance of pragmatic paradox, and that the emergence of a distinction between an ‘inside’ and an ‘outside’ is part and parcel of the discrimination between psychic and factual reality. 30 2 Interpretation and creationism The query about the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge confronts Weltanschauungen rooted in the mainstreams of Western thought, those of philosophy and science.
My enquiry addresses the process of insight. I shall argue that Strachey posits as background to insight a pragmatic paradox evolving towards a map–territory discrimination – that is, an evolution in logical typing. I shall then attempt to show that the analysand’s ‘judgement of reality’ of his analyst’s interpretations takes place through the evolution of this pragmatic paradox. The theory of logical types, introduced in 1903 by Bertrand Russell and developed in Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica in 1912, deals with mathematical paradox; it was expanded on later by Russell, Carnap and Reichenbach into a theory of logical levels in language.
The idea of a rift between man and nature is traceable to our myth of creation, in the Book of Genesis, where after giving form to beasts God creates man in His image, the act of creation resting on the Word man shares: In principio erat Verbum. At the medieval debate of the universals (Rougier, 1960), Thomas Aquinas, Abelard and Duns Scotus maintained the adequatio rei et intellectus : on man’s partaking of the Creator, words and concepts are deemed equivalent to reality (unum nomen, unum nominatum), enabling the discursive mind to use concepts in the manner of realities – the hermeneutic ideas that the discursive mind constitutes nature and of rhetoric as truth roundly follow this creationist stance.