CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = xi
1 The background = 1
2 Feeling and thinking = 8
The historical division between feeling and thinking = 8
Freud and logic = 9
Logic and psychoanalysis = 10
Logic and thought = 12
Logical truthfulness = 14
Emotional truthfulness = 15
Susanne Langer, symbolization and metaphor = 16
A view of emotion = 17
Location and recognition = 19
3 Logic, symmetry, bi-logic and the unconscious = 21
The unconscious and generalization = 22
Asymmetry and symmetry = 23
The principle of symmetry and the unconscious = 24
The symmetrization of thoughtful propositions into symmetrical logic = 26
Accentuation of both symmetries and asymmetries in the unconscious = 28
Examples of symmetry and asymmetry = 29
Some modalities in which symmetrization can ordinarily occur = 31
Bi-logical dialectic and bi-modality = 35
Hierarchical levels of classification = 36
Intersubjective symmetrization = 38
4 Bi-logic and Freud's characteristics of the unconscious = 40
Characteristics of the unconscious = 40
Negation = 45
The unconscious, abstraction, prepositional functions and predicate thinking = 47
Some clinical illustrations using bi-logic = 51
5 Bi-logic, affects and infinite sets = 55
The concept of infinity = 55
Infinite experiences = 58
Unrepressed unconscious as infinite sets = 61
The unconscious dealing in extremes = 62
Emotion, infinity and thought = 65
A phenomcnological-psychoanalytical-logical approach = 65
The first component of emotion = 66
The timeness of thinking and 'timelessness' of feeling = 68
The second component of emotion: chinking = 68
Discussion = 69
6 Psychic structure, space and dimensionality = 74
The stratified bi-logical structure = 74
The fundamental antinomy of being and world = 77
Space and mind = 79
Conclusions so far = 85
Possible emotional dimensions of the unconscious = 85
Three clinical examples of dimensionality = 87
Dimensionality of objects and the internal world = 92
7 Bi-logic and central psychoanalytic concepts = 95
The sense organs and symmetrization = 99
Motive, drive, instinct and bi-logic = 100
Libidinal development = 102
The mechanisms of defence = 106
Love, hate and fantasy = 113
Emotion and unconscious = 114
Freud's id, ego and super-ego = 114
The self = 116
Objects and object relations = 116
8 The therapeutic process = 119
The unfolding function in psychoanalytic therapy = 119
The quantum intellect-emotion = 122
Further suggestions about therapy arising out of bi-logic = 123
Some case illustrations = 125
Examples from psychoanalytic psychotherapy = 131
Conclusion = 136
9 Bi-logic, a crossroads between disciplines? = 137
Piaget = 139
L e ´ vi-Strauss = 142
Bateson = 143
Edelman = 145
Bion = 148
Conclusion = 151
10 Complex systems, mathematical chaos and bi-logic = 152
Complex systems = 152
Mathematical chaos theory = 154
Unpredictability in living beings = 156
Chaos theory and psychoanalysis = 157
Mathematical chaos, unpredictability, infinity and bi-logic = 160
11 Final summary = 163
References = 163
Name index = 168
Subject index = l76
