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- Title
The Modal Components of Judgements in a Quantum Model of Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Authors
Battilotti, Giulia; Borozan, Miloš; Lauro Grotto, Rosapia
- Abstract
In the present paper, we develop a theory of thinking based on an attempt to formalize the construction of mental representations as described in psychoanalytic theory. In previous work, we described Freud's and Matte Blanco's structural Unconscious in a formal model in which the properties of unconscious representations are captured by particular sets-infinite singletons-that can be derived in first-order logic language. Here, we afford the issue of the finitization of unconscious representations by assuming that the mind can form an all-purpose modality, originating from abstraction from infinite singletons; in this way, a symmetric prelogical setting for mental representations is formally created, and this is interpreted in a quantum spin model by a modal (necessity) projector. Then, by introducing time, one can describe the links that mental representations can establish with reality, and hence finitize the representations. The modality is so split into finite components, here termed positive, negative and irreal; the splitting of the modality is traced back to the decomposition of the spin observables by means of the Pauli matrices, which can offer a quantum semantics to the method applied. Here, we suggest that the development of the modal approach and its quantum logic implementation can be considered as a proper formalization of some aspect of the psychoanalytic theory of thinking proposed by Bion; namely, we will show that the process of abstraction leading from raw data to preconceptions, and therefore to the definition of the content-container relationship, is adequately captured by our model, and further correspondences can be detected with Bion's theory about links and transformations, implying different ways in which the mind can get in touch with both internal and external reality.
- Subjects
FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; PSYCHOANALYTIC theory; QUANTUM spin models; MODEL theory; PAULI matrices; QUANTUM logic; CONTAINER terminals
- Publication
Entropy, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 7, p1057
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e25071057