Logic, Philosophy & Psychoanalysis

Summary

This volume contains monologues and dialogues in which the most basic questions of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and logic are given clear and cogent answers.

Table of Contents:

30 Laws of Logic

Different Kinds of Mathematical Functions: A Dialogue

Functions, Bijections, and Mapping-relations

What is Logic?

Outline of a Theory of Knowledge

Determinism, Indeterminism, and Personal Freedom

A Dialogue

Neurosis vs. Psychosis

What determines whether one is happy?

Compulsive Work

Stuttering

How men and women are different

One learns from adversity, not from failure

Does everybody want money?

The #1 Rule of Writing

Lack of Coordination

Mental Illness: The Ultimate Litmus Test

The #1 Rule of Business

Honesty and Integrity

A Dialogue

Anger

A Dialogue

What is Bullshit?

A Short Treatise on Causality

Part 1: Causality and Continuity

Part 2 : Causation and Explanation

Part 3: Causation and Counterfactual Truth

Part 4: Program-causation

Part 5: The four different kinds of causes involved in the development of mental illness

Part 6: Singular Causation

Obsessions and Compulsions

A Dialogue concerning OCD

Writing Animated Dialogues as Self-Analysis:

A Dialogue

Neurotic Anxiety as Rational Fear:

A Dialogue

Agency

Analyticity

Anomalous Monism

Bullshit

Two Kinds of Insanity

Ignorance of the Future

Justice

Proof that Time-Travel is Impossible

Rationality vs. Intelligence: A Dialogue