First Attempts to Formalize Some Main Aspects of Psychoanalysis

Abstract

In this chapter, we have tried to join Lévi-Strauss' ideas with Matte Blanco's ones, in that they have in common from the structuralistic standpoint and psychoanalytically aimed. To this end, we have mainly made use of some notions and methods drawn from elementary mathematics and theoretical physics, in particular the notions of groupoid and symmetry breaking, which are suitable, from a conceptual-analogical viewpoint, to formalize together Lévi-Strauss' and Matte Blanco's ideas. Besides to have mentioned as well other formalizations attempts turned towards psychoanalytic domain, what we have originally reached is that, the typical feature of human consciousness, is that of oppositional dichotomy, a basic distinguishing binary task typical of humans, formalized in the notion of ordering, in which besides falls the temporal dimension, another distinguishing feature of human psyche with its possible different senses. This basic oppositional feature is then in agreement with the unavoidable presence of phallic logic.