Establishing a pre-logical setting in a quantum model of psycho-analytic theory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04708v1
• Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:51:36 GMT
• Title: Establishing a pre-logical setting in a quantum model of psycho-analytic theory
• Authors: Giulia Battilotti, Rosapia Lauro Grotto,
• Abstract summary: The paper analyzes a pre-logical setting, by considering a formalized approach to the foundations of psychoanalysis in logic.<n>The formalized approach derives from a quantum model of spin states.<n>The irreal component cannot emerge and, in logic, is absorbed by the two others, giving rise to logical duality.
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• Abstract: A crucial issue both in cognitive and psychoanalytical theories deals with the origin of mental representations. In order to explore this issue, the paper analyzes a pre-logical setting, by considering a formalized approach to the foundations of psychoanalysis in logic, interpreting and integrating the views by Freud, Matte Blanco, Klein and Bion. The formalized approach derives from a quantum model of spin states. A representation of the spin state of a particle in first order logic is abstracted to get a modality interpretable as an abstract projector. The last can be decomposed into a positive, negative and irreal component. The irreal component cannot emerge and, in logic, is absorbed by the two others, giving rise to logical duality. Due to its treatment of undefiniteness and coherence, the paper is meant to contribute to quantum cognition, in its particular sense of affective quantum cognition.

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