Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword
Beppe Berruti

Preface

Chapter 1 – At the Beginning (pp. 1-6)

Chapter 2 – Myths Dispelled (pp. 7-14)

Chapter 3 – Evolution and Nonlinearity (pp. 15-22)

Chapter 4 – Relation versus Reification (pp. 23-34)

Chapter 5 – Causality (pp. 35-38)

Chapter 6 – Loops (pp. 39-42)

Chapter 7 – Data Complexes (pp. 43-44)

Chapter 8 – Cause and Words (pp. 45-48)

Chapter 9 – In the Beginning Was the Uncanny (pp. 49-52)

Chapter 10 – The Emergence of Order (pp. 53-54)

Chapter 11 – The Arrow of Time (pp. 55-56)

Chapter 12 – Open Systems (pp. 57-58)

Chapter 13 – Sensitive Dependency on Initial Conditions (pp. 59-60)

Chapter 14 – Complexification (pp. 61-62)

Chapter 15 – Possibilities (pp. 63-64)

Chapter 16 – Turbulences (pp. 65-66)

Chapter 17 – Strange Attractors (pp. 67-70)

Chapter 18 – Boundless Objects (pp. 71-74)

Chapter 19 – Complicated or Complex? (pp. 75-80)

Chapter 20 – New Organizational Equilibria (pp. 81-82)

Chapter 21 – The Subject-Object (pp. 83-84)

Chapter 22 – Feedback (pp. 85-86)

Chapter 23 – Autopoiesis (pp. 87-90)

Chapter 24 – Relationships and Analytical Field (pp. 91-94)

Chapter 25 – The Concept of Field and Complex Logic (pp. 95-98)

Chapter 26 – Transformations in the Analyst’s Consulting Room (pp. 99-102)

Chapter 27 – Learning (pp. 103-104)

Chapter 28 – The First Steps of Thought (pp. 105-108)

Chapter 29 – Projections (pp. 109-112)

Chapter 30 – Internal Projections (pp. 113-116)

Chapter 31 – Holoprojections (pp. 116-118)

Chapter 32 – Bion’s Signs As Operators of a Complex Language (pp. 119-122)

Chapter 33 – More on Hologrammic, Recursive and Dialogic Organization of the Field (pp. 123-126)

Chapter 34 – The Analytic Field and Nonlinearity (pp. 127-138)

Chapter 35 – Promoting the Nonlinearity of Transformations (pp. 139-140)

Chapter 36 – Interactions (pp. 141-142)

Chapter 37 – Naming (pp. 143-144)

Chapter 38 – Epistemology and Style (pp. 145-156)

Glossary

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

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Audience: Psychoanalysts, researchers in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis, science philosophers and epistemologists.