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April 21, 20260 citationsOpen Access

The Architecture of a Field: Symbolic Topology as a Field Map

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AFAbol FroushanKing's College London

Key Points

  • This work aims to outline a unified framework for understanding diverse concepts related to experience and coherence.
  • Introduced the principle of one architecture with multiple charts to analyze various domains.
  • Situates concepts within a broader topology, including historical and political extensions.
  • Models experience and identity through key mechanisms like the Basho Loop and Recursive Enclosure.
  • Established a coherent system that maps key works in philosophy and psychoanalysis onto a unified structure.
  • Demonstrated how curvature governs coherence across different domains.
  • Highlighted the plurality of applications within formal theory and lived experience.

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the symbolic-topological framework as a unified field of inquiry into experience, interiority, coherence, and transformation. It introduces the principle of one architecture, multiple charts, through which diverse works across philosophy, topology, psychoanalysis, poetics, ethics, and applied research are understood as local articulations of a single underlying structure. At its centre, the framework models experience as a structured field, interiority as a recursively maintained coherence, and identity as invariance through transformation. Core mechanisms including the Basho Loop, Recursive Enclosure, and sheaf-theoretic gluing are situated within a broader architecture that includes boundary conditions such as dreaming, historical and political extensions such as the Topology of Return, and applied domains of organisational and collective life. The paper functions as a field map. It situates key works including Symbolic Topology of Experience, Topology of Meaning, Topology of the Unconscious, The Topologico-symbolic Tractatus, Identity Under Acceleration, and related essays, books, and programmes within a coherent system. It also introduces curvature as a transversal condition governing the formation and persistence of coherence across domains. The aim is to render the field legible as a structured whole while preserving its plurality of forms, from formal theory to lived experience and application. This work forms part of the Symbolic-Topological Framework, a research field concerning experience, coherence, interiority, and recursive form.

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Abol Froushan (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e71423cb99343efc98d7dchttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19654282
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