In The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses, Raul Moncayo uses the complex plane to evaluate analytic outcomes. Moncayo’s approach provides a study of the process and outcome of singular analyses that does not rely on the methods and questionnaires of psychotherapy or medical research.
With reference to topology and abstract mathematics, Moncayo explores the limits of the Cartesian plane for predicting the capacity for sublimation and positive outcome. By integrating the complex plane, Moncayo arrives at an exact number to ‘arithmetize’ symptoms and human capacities.
This book represents a new approach to Lacanian analysis and outcomes that will be of great interest to Lacanian analysts in practice and in training.
In The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses, Raul Moncayo uses the complex plane to evaluate analytic outcomes. Moncayo’s approach provides a study of the process and outcome of singular analyses that does not rely on the methods and questionnaires of psychotherapy or medical research.
Introduction
1. The Subject of the Real All-Alone
2. Narcissism
3. Is
Psychiatry the Healing of the Mind or the Brain?
4. Is the Brain Organized by
Language or Mathematics?
5. Using the Complex Plane to Evaluate Analytic
Outcomes and the Formation of the Brain
6. Complex Numbers shown in Binary
Matrixes Treatment of the Obsessional and Hysterical Structures. 7
Conclusion. Appendix I Standard Proven Probability that a Pair of Cards Could
be of the Same Color (Same Quality X). Appendix II The Philosophic and
Psychoanalytic Concept of History. Appendix III The Sinthome in Joyce, Lacan,
and Jung
Raul Moncayo was born in Chile and first trained as a psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires. He obtained his PhD in social-clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley and trained as an analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, which he also helped found. He is the founder of the Chinese American Center for Freudian and Lacanian Analysis and Research.