ABSTRACT

Psychical structure has its parallel in the domain of mathematics, and mathematical results have structures parallel to them in the domain of the psychopathology of love. All structures in the domain of sexual love have translations in the domain of mathematics equally; all mathematical structures correspond to some structural domain within the field of love. The field of love and the field of mathematics are usually taken to be separate domains, but Imre Hermann claimed that the structure in each parallels that of the other. Hermann had the idea of seeking to find themes that were common to the mathematics and to the psychotic structure. Hermann considered depression and love, super-ego structure and the theory of Ideals, to fall on one side of the homology, and on the other, order relations, the well ordering principle and the axiom of choice, intuitionism and finitism in proof theory, and general problems in the theory of sets of points.