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This book proposes a formalisation of emotions in a BDI logic (logic of belief, desire and intention). Such a formalisation aims at helping the design of emotional agents. The first part is dedicated to the state of the art, from the point of view of both psychology (history of theories of emotions) and computer science (emotional agents and their applications). The second part is dedicated to the logical formalisation of emotions; it introduces the logical framework, exposes and argues the formal definitions of twenty emotions, and proves some of their properties. Finally the last part is...

Psychoanalysis is a historical discourse of suffering and healing under conditions of modernity rather than a metaphysical discourse of universal truth, and must be so due to the ontological indeterminacy of psychic life. Demonstrating this proceeds through the substantiation of two primary theses. First, pluralism in psychoanalysis, thus the perspectival character of psychoanalytic knowing, is irreducible. Second, psychic life is partially pliable to interpretive constitution rather than a self-subsistent object domain fully available to third-personal, objective description. Together, these...

This book reconstructs the metapsychological and clinical theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan in a manner designed to redress prevalent mischaracterizations of their works that are largely responsible for the deadlocked polemics between partisans of Kleinian and Lacanian camps.