ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book starts with Sigmund Freud's concept of the unrepressed unconscious, the study of its meaning, scope and difficulties. It considers the initial conception of Freud in terms of consciousness and the unconscious and its reformulation in terms of symmetrical and asymmetrical modes of being. The book deals with the unrepressed unconscious seen as infinite sets. It proposes a distinction between extensive and intensive infinite sets, which permits differentiation between various types of mental manifestations. The book also deals with the infinite sets and the question of the measurement of unconscious processes. It shows that emotion bears several different relations to the concepts of magnitude, quantity and measurement, and the various relations and presents the development of the concept of the translating function.
