TITLE:
The Quantum Unconscious and the Observant Consciousness
AUTHORS:
Rui Freire Lucas
KEYWORDS:
Unconscious, Observation, Quantum Mechanics, Psychoanalysis, Epistemological Reformulation
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.6,
June
16,
2016
ABSTRACT:
Based on the philosophy of Henri Bergson
and the contemporary developments of Quantum Physics, I sought to demonstrate
how these developments are incompatible with a positivist vision of reality,
which is still influential in the scientific community. Specifically, in the
field of Psychoanalysis, I have shown how this outdated epistemology has been
responsible for a manic denial of the theories of Carl Gustav Jung and Wilfred
Bion (later stage) as part of an immobilising allegiance to a schizo-paranoid
functional tradition imposed by its founder. Finally, I have proposed that
supported by the formulations of these renegade analysts, psychoanalysis can
progress to a depressive position, eventually transmitting this integrated
perspective of reality to the rest of the scientific community and postmodern
society in general.