Category Archives: Topologos

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #34 Cutting up a sphere

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Cutting up a sphere

Gérard Crovisier shows cutting ups made on a sphere and their implications in clinic.

Also starting at time 1:01:23 we review some questions that emerged as a result of the workshop #33.

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #33 Real with cylindrical structure

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The consequences of a cylindrical structure of real

Returning to the Lacanian presentation of schema R applied to a cross-cap he considers the real to have a Moebius strip structure. Without changing this paradigm it is possible to build it out of a cylinder. Using this structure it is often easier to explain the relation of the subject with its objects of desire; this as well in the case of “normality”, neurosis, Psychosis.

An article is available at the following address: pdf

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #32 A tetravalent logic

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The logic of the subject is tetravalent

The standard logic, called Aristotle logic, uses the principle of the excluded third. I.e a proposition is either true or false. However, by a closer look as did Godel, Husserl, Lacan and many others, we see that some cases invalidate this approach by revealing a part of undecidable. The logic must integrate its share of incompleteness. There are propositions that may be true and false, or neither true nor false. These modified logic elements could remain on purely mathematical fields. The analytical listening uncovers that much of the discourse of the analysand enters into this logic of four truths values. We describe this tetravalent logic in its mathematical approach and clinical approach.

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Topologos Lutecium Mulholland Drive Reconsidered

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After a few visions of Mulholland drive film made by David Lynch in 2001, and of very smart attempts to decipher the story of the film, I decided to do my own editing of the clips. It leads to another performance, supposedly in a chronological order. The result displays the matters of the dream out of the elements of the life of Diane (Naomi Watts). Reordering the elements is not so far from what we do while listening to the discourse of the analysand.
Nonetheless TWO IMPORTANT WARNINGS. First if you have not seen the original film, make sure you watch it first otherwise you’ll miss a lot.
Second the material displayed here IS NOT FREE OF COPYRIGHTS, it belongs to the owners of Mulholland drive film by David Lynch. It is presented here for ACADEMIC USE ONLY. Any other use is strictly reserved to the film owners. Therefore Lutecium cannot be held responsible for any improper use of it. By making this material available I hope I do not infringe the copyrights of the owners nor the rules of YouTube.

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #31 Without the knowledge of my own volition

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I did it without the knowledge of my own volition

How many syllables in a signifier? How to name a missing signifier? What is the nature of the skin separating signifier and signified? And separating truth and knowledge?

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Topologos Lutecium Conversation #03 Psychoanalysis & English Tongue

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Third of a series of conversations between John Gasperoni and Jacques B. Siboni.
Dr. Jacques Lacan mentioned that psychoanalysis and the English tongue where poorly compatible. With John Gasperoni we develop what this assertion suggest to us, I being from a French speaking country and he being from an English speaking one.
What is the part of the Anglo-saxon culture vs. Romance culture?
What is the part of the differences in the structures of these two languages. Is is one more form of “Folie à deux” between Anglo-saxon world and psychoanalysis?

1st Source: Disputation #01: Concept or signifier

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Relationship between signifier and concept

Corpofreudiano France and Topologos joined for a session of the laboratory of the concept. Its object was the concept and the signifier. Here we present excerpts. Specifically what enters the notion of “disputation” that exists in latin and English among others. But not in french. This term proposed by Henry Fontana is opposed to discussion which in latin denotes the crash of the other. Here we are inaugurating by this term a process of dialectical progress. Thanks for returning your perception of this work.

We have written an amplification of this dialogue in pdf at http://lutetium.org/uploads/topologos/a18062803.pdf

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #30 Moebius strip, projective plane

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Moebius strip and projective plane

This is a return to the Moebius' strip and the projective plane structures. The clinical relationship between these 2 structures

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Topologos Lutecium Conversation #02 Knot of Fantasy

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Second of a series of conversations between John Gasperoni and Jacques B. Siboni. A conversation around the knot of fantasy

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #29 Topological manipulations

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Manipulations of knots, strands and surfaces

An animated discussion during which are evoked different structural conceptions of knots. Topological objects are confronted with the psychoanalytic clinic.
Note difficulties due to the absence of operator for the camera!

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