A mathematical form of Freud’s primary process

Anthony Badalamenti ()

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2016, vol. 50, issue 2, 604 pages

Abstract: This paper presents a mathematical model for cognitive aspects of Freud’s primary process based upon equivalence relationships and their induced partitions of the sets on which they are defined into equivalence classes. The object of study is Freud’s original concept of the primary process. The model implies that a cognitive aspect of Freud’s secondary process is a limiting form of the primary and that both processes use the same the logic, with their difference located in the kind of objects to which their shared logic is applied. The unified model of the two processes is applied to transference and to object representations. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

Keywords: Freud; Primary process; Mathematical model; Equivalence relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-015-0165-5

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