Symmetrization, Mirroring and External Reality: An ‘Inner’ Perspective

Grotto, Rosapia Lauro

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“…In our proposed theory of judgement, where the spin model is allowed to be summarized by Equation (11), the real coefficient α = 0 in the equation itself allows us to keep into account the infinitary aspect of the mental life. Significantly, this is different from what the cognitive theories, based on explicit cognitive representations, can perform (see [1]). Namely, a judgement is enabled to include the whole mental life.…”

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“…Hence, our model requires infinite singletons. We now see how to conceive them by considering the above definition (1). Let us first consider a singleton given in the standard way, for example, the singleton V = {u}.…”

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“…Here, we develop a logical basis for a particular approach to quantum cognition, which we term affective quantum cognition. According to psychoanalysis, the unifying dimension of affect has a central role in the representational domain, while in the cognitive sciences, multiple psychological dimensions are considered in order to describe the emotional and affective content of mental life, such as feelings, emotions, sensations and so on, and these dimensions are mainly considered to be separate, distant from cognitive contents [1]. The effort to formalize Freudian theory dates back to the pioneering work of A. Khrennikov, who was the first to recognize a well-defined topological structure in the Freudian Unconscious (see [2][3][4]).…”

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The Modal Components of Judgements in a Quantum Model of Psychoanalytic Theory

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In the present paper, we develop a theory of thinking based on an attempt to formalize the construction of mental representations as described in psychoanalytic theory. In previous work, we described Freud’s and Matte Blanco’s structural Unconscious in a formal model in which the properties of unconscious representations are captured by particular sets-infinite singletons-that can be derived in first-order logic language. Here, we afford the issue of the finitization of unconscious representations by assuming that the mind can form an all-purpose modality, originating from abstraction from infinite singletons; in this way, a symmetric prelogical setting for mental representations is formally created, and this is interpreted in a quantum spin model by a modal (necessity) projector. Then, by introducing time, one can describe the links that mental representations can establish with reality, and hence finitize the representations. The modality is so split into finite components, here termed positive, negative and irreal; the splitting of the modality is traced back to the decomposition of the spin observables by means of the Pauli matrices, which can offer a quantum semantics to the method applied. Here, we suggest that the development of the modal approach and its quantum logic implementation can be considered as a proper formalization of some aspect of the psychoanalytic theory of thinking proposed by Bion; namely, we will show that the process of abstraction leading from raw data to preconceptions, and therefore to the definition of the content-container relationship, is adequately captured by our model, and further correspondences can be detected with Bion’s theory about links and transformations, implying different ways in which the mind can get in touch with both internal and external reality.

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“…The detection of the default mode network (DMN) as a functional brain network active when individuals are undisturbed or carry out an undirected mental task (e.g., mind-wandering or daydreaming, thinking about their individual plans/memories) led to attempts to apply this finding to traditional psychodynamic views. DNM is active during mental processes that overlap with and constitute the concept of the Ego ( Carhart-Harris and Friston, 2010 ; Rizzolatti et al, 2014 ; Lauro-Grotto, 2021 ). DNM is also active when dreaming.…”

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The Emerging Role of Interdisciplinarity in Clinical Psychoanalysis

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Löffler‐Stastka

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Given the tight interconnections proposed between brain and psyche, psychoanalysis was conceptualized as an interdisciplinary theory right from the beginning. The diversification of knowledge performed by different science and technology fields, concerned with the same matter (explaining mind and brain and connecting them), makes this interdisciplinarity even more visible and evident. This challenges the integrative potential lying in psychoanalytic meta-theory.

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“…In general, developing a further analysis of the logical role of infinite singletons could allow reaching the formalisation of other aspects of the Freudian theory. In fact, the overwhelming power of symmetry in the model should be somehow limited (Saad, 2020;Lauro Grotto, 2021) to reproduce the mixture of conscious and unconscious processes that is typical of human thinking, as described by Matte Blanco in the Bi-logic approach. In the genetic development Language and Psychoanalysis, 2021, 10 (2), 46-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/landp.v10i2.5795…”

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Infinite Singletons and the Logic of Freudian Theory

Grotto

Borozan

Battilotti

2021

Language and Psychoanalysis

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The aim of this paper is to advance a formal description of the implicit logic grounding of the psychoanalytic theory. We therefore propose a new interpretation of the logical features of the Freudian unconscious process, starting from the Bi-logic formulation put forward by the Chilean psychoanalyst Matte Blanco. We conceive the universal undifferentiated state of the deep psychoanalytic Unconscious in terms of particular sets named infinite singletons, and we show how they can represent the logical foundations for a formal description of the Primary process. We first disclose some implicit assumptions underlying the common logical language. In doing so, we discover an unexpected presence of symmetry even in the most basic of logical and verbal structures. In the approach derived, we show that infiniteness, not finiteness, is the primary mode of sets, and therefore, of thinking. The pivotal consequence of this model is that the unconscious elements cannot be characterised in the absence of external reality, which produces the collapse of infinite sets and allows for the emergence of linguistic representations. Finally, we discuss how the model could represent a platform to formalise further developments of psychoanalytic theory, in particular with respect to the shift from the First to the Second Topics in Freudian theory.

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Symmetrization, Mirroring and External Reality: An ‘Inner’ Perspective

Cited by 5 publications

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The Modal Components of Judgements in a Quantum Model of Psychoanalytic Theory

The Modal Components of Judgements in a Quantum Model of Psychoanalytic Theory

The Emerging Role of Interdisciplinarity in Clinical Psychoanalysis

Infinite Singletons and the Logic of Freudian Theory

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