The present paper illustrates a case of re-contestualization of a formal theory from the domain of cognitive science to the one of psycho-analitic theorisation. Starting from a information theory driven approach to the study of the organization of memory representations, it is possible to derive a description of the mental space in terms of peculiar topological structure, the ultrametric one, that can be recognized as also fitting the constraint of the primary process as presented by Matte Blanco in its essays on Bi-Logica. The reformulation of the distinction between primary and secondary process in topological terms takes to the speculative proposal of ‘quasi-symbols’ as possible objects of the mental life. The paper also intends to reverberate some aspects of the crucial interplay between the phenomenological experience of personal change and conceptual advance in theorization.
The Unconscious as an ultrametric set / LAURO GROTTO, Rosapia. - In: AMERICAN IMAGO. - ISSN 0065-860X. - STAMPA. - 64:(2007), pp. 52-62. [10.1353/aim.2008.0009]
The Unconscious as an ultrametric set
LAURO GROTTO, ROSAPIA
2007
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The present paper illustrates a case of re-contestualization of a formal theory from the domain of cognitive science to the one of psycho-analitic theorisation. Starting from a information theory driven approach to the study of the organization of memory representations, it is possible to derive a description of the mental space in terms of peculiar topological structure, the ultrametric one, that can be recognized as also fitting the constraint of the primary process as presented by Matte Blanco in its essays on Bi-Logica. The reformulation of the distinction between primary and secondary process in topological terms takes to the speculative proposal of ‘quasi-symbols’ as possible objects of the mental life. The paper also intends to reverberate some aspects of the crucial interplay between the phenomenological experience of personal change and conceptual advance in theorization.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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