Unconscious as Infinite Sets

Ignacio Matte Blanco

• Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Scope, Outline and Meaning of this Book , Indispensable Notions , Some Logico-Mathematical Concepts 1 , A Reference to My Previous Work , From the Unrepressed Unconscious to the Symmetrical Mode of Being , A Formulation of the Question , Freud’s Development of the Concept of Unrepressed Unconscious (a Historical Survey) , The Interrelations between Repressed, Unrepressed, Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, Id, Ego, Super-Ego , The Two Modes of Being in Man , The Interrelations between the Two Modes of Being. The Translating or Unfolding Function , The Place of the Primary and Secondary Processes in the Present Conception , The Crisis of the Threefold Conception in the Light of the Conception of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Being. The Place of the Notion of Object , A Short Summary , Symmetrical Being (Unrepressed Unconscious) as Infinite Sets , The Problem , A Discussion of Analytical Findings in Terms of the Notion of Infinite Set , Infinite Sets and Levels of (Unconscious) Depth , Omnipotence, Omniscience and Idealisation , Emotion and the Infinite Sets , The Infinite Sets and the Question of Measurement of Unconscious Processes , The Notions of Measurement Employed in this Study , Measurement in the Psychical World , Towards the Measurement of the Unconscious Mental Processes , On the Nature of Emotion , A Phenomenological Psycho-Analytical-Logical Approach , A Closer Study of Sensation-Feeling , The Second Component of Emotion: Thinking (Establishment of Relations) , The Question of the Measurability of Emotion: a General Formulation. Sensation - Feeling and Measurement , The Question of the Measurability of Emotion. Emotions as Infinite Sets , The Translating Function and the Quantum of Intellect-Emotion , The Place of Emotion in the Psycho-Analytical Conception , The General Laws of the Bipolarity Symmetrical-Asymmetrical or Unconscious-Conscious , A Perspective of the Interaction Unconscious- Conscious (Symmetrical-Asymmetrical) , An Alternative Formulation of the Bipolarity Symmetrical - Asymmetrical (Unconscious - Conscious) , A Retrospective Look and a General Perspective , The Meaning and Potentialities of the Approach Put Forward in this Book , Summing-Up , Space and Mind , Formulation of the Problem , Brief Notions about Geometrical Space 1 , Multidimensional Space, the Unconscious and Dreams , The Paradox Part-Whole. The Unfolding Function , Mental Tension as Seen in Terms of the Present Approach , Pre-Orgastic Experiences and Fantasies of Sexual Intercourse , Miscellanea , Possibility of a Geometrical Representation of the Principle of Symmetry. Need for Multidimensional Space , Emotion, Magic, the ‘Numinosum’ and the Infinite. A Comment on Sartre