What causes structure to find a place in love?

Who is the Scientist-Subject? A Critique of the Neo-Kantian Scientist-Subject in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s Objectivity

“… My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, my brothers and sisters, and all my family, and those close to me, people who are my friends, those intimately near to me, as well as my comrades and my acquaintances, together with all those more distant people who, during these last years, have been around me, that is to say army people, employees, my financial and worldly relations, have most often deceived, insulted, scorned, railed, mocked, mumbled, dishonoured, brutalised, thrashed me…. 1 These were the words of the well-known mathematician Georg Cantor who often suffered psychotic episodes and was hospitalized many times during the development of his revolutionary set theories – now known as Cantorian set theories foundationally important in mathematics and science (Burgoyne 2002 : 237). Psychoanalyst Imre Hermann, who studied the creative work of Cantor, argued that this was actually an example of parallelism between the psychic structure of Cantor’s manic-depressive episodes and the structure of his set theory.…”

“… 2 Hermann similarly proposed parallels between mathematical and psychic structures in the work of Bertrand Russell (Burgoyne 2002 , endnote 25, p. 255). …”

“…Science and Truth has made sense to me in consultation with other interpretative contributions on “reconstruction and clarification of Lacan’s argument” (Nobus 2002 : 89). I have therefore referred to a few such efforts at “reconstruction and clarification” of Lacan’s arguments in Science and Truth (Burgoyne 2002 ; Glynos 2002 ; Miller 2002 ; Nobus 2002 ; Stavrakakis 1999 ).…”

A topologia na psicanálise de Jacques Lacan: o significante, o conjunto e o número

“…Na busca dos fundamentos que garantiriam o uso da topologia pela psicanálise, por parte de Lacan, outros autores procuram oferecer argumentos. Burgoyne (2002) Segundo o autor, tanto Hermann, quanto Lacan teriam resgatado essa referência espacial e procurado restaurar sua matematicidade. Hermann, por seu lado, formulou a tese de um estrito paralelismo entre as estruturas nos domínios do amor e da matemática, 6 Não deixa de ser interessante a lembrança proporcionada por PRIBRAM (1998, p. 14) de que Helmholtz, tido em alta estima por Freud, haveria escrito a Poincaré perguntando-lhe "Como percebemos os objetos e que tipo de tratamento matemático poderíamos supor?…”