June 20, 2007

  • ART WARS continued:

    Kernel

    Mathematical Reviews citation:

    MR2163497

    (2006g:81002)

    81-03
    (81P05)

    Gieser, Suzanne The innermost kernel. Depth psychology and quantum physics.
    Wolfgang Pauli’s dialogue with C. G. Jung.
    Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005. xiv+378 pp. ISBN: 3-540-20856-9

    A quote from MR at Amazon.com:

    “This revised translation of a Swedish Ph. D. thesis in philosophy
    offers far more than a discussion of Wolfgang Pauli’s encounters with
    the psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung…. Here the book explains very well
    how Pauli attempted to extend his understanding beyond superficial
    esotericism and spiritism…. To understand Pauli one needs books like
    this one, which… seems to open a path to a fuller understanding of
    Pauli, who was seeking to solve a quest even deeper than quantum
    physics.” (Arne Schirrmacher, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2006g)

    An excerpt:

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    I do not yet know what Gieser means by “the innermost
    kernel.” The following is my version of a “kernel” of sorts– a diagram
    well-known to students of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and art theorist Rosalind Krauss:

    The four group is also known as the Vierergruppe or Klein group.  It appears, notably, as the translation subgroup of A, the group of 24 automorphisms of the affine plane over the 2-element field, and therefore as the kernel of the homomorphism taking A to the group of 6 automorphisms of the projective line over the 2-element field. (See Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.)

    Related material:

    The “chessboard” of
       Nov. 7, 2006

    I Ching chessboard


    I Ching chessboard

    None of this material really has much to do with
    the history of physics, except for its relation to the life and thought of physicist
    Wolfgang Pauli– the “Mephistopheles” of the new book Faust in Copenhagen. (See previous entry.)

    “Only gradually did I discover
    what the mandala really is:
    ‘Formation, Transformation,
    Eternal Mind’s eternal recreation’”

    (Faust, Part Two, as
    quoted by Jung in
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

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