Sigmund Freud, quoting Le Bon, marks the subject, member of the masses, the seal of barbarism. Michel Roussan analyzes Freud's text “Mass psychology and ego analysis” of 1921 and attach this work to the structure of the four speeches invented by Jacques Lacan. The connections with our present time cannot be avoided.
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“The slave is defined by the fact that someone has power over his body” told us Jacques Lacan. The master needs tools to ensure the docility of the slave. In the past it was the whip, the rifle, the police, judges etc. Nowadays new tools are at his disposal, Science, mass media, the police, Internet, the LBDs, the fines, the judges, etc. In the past, these tools formatted the slave, the sufferings, fear of death, the feeling of inferiority, etc. Today is the fear of tomorrow, fear of mutilation, fear of illness and death, infantilization, guilt, etc. We propose to find the dialectic of master and slave in the master's discourse that Lacan taught us, and to find in the discourse of the university the tools that the teacher uses as tools of enslavement.
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A conversation with John Gasperoni at the time of Covid-19. Will there be an evolution of capitalism at a future time?
A new conversation with John Sheridan, leftist artist/activist. After disputing about the problematics induced by capitalism in France and the USA, and its incompatibility with human welfare, we come to the second one in which we will try to transmit the rough sketches of our understanding of the solutions French and US activists have invented so far to solve this major problem. In France I am pretty sure it will come from the Yellow Vests movement.
John Sheridan art work can be seen at http://www.johnsheridanart.com/
Following a presentation to La Lysimaque I develop the concepts of chaos and in particular Rule 30 describing what characterizes dynamical systems when being chaotic.
I was not certain that this session of the workshop has little to do with the psychoanalytic clinic, but to our surprise, connections occurred.
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A conversation with John Sheridan left artist/activist about the problematics induced by capitalism in France and the USA, and its incompatibility with human welfare. This is the first of a series of two. The second one will try to transmit the rough sketches of our understanding of the solutions French and US activists have invented so far to solve this major problem. In France I am pretty sure it will come from the Yellow Vests movement.
Back to the formulas of sexuation. Many issues needed clarification. That's what we tried to do.
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This disputation follows, and amplifies , the intervention of Michel Thomé at the last Saturday of Lysimaque.
We return to the definitions and characteristics of links and knots.
Then Michel Thomé describes the equation he produced, for writing each knot and link. And from this equation we can write the equation of the next link and of the previous one. It seems that this is a general equation for encoding all of the possible links.
(Note a video interruption between the time 54:07 and 54:16)
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We produce recordings of meetings between two or three people who “dispute” about an object.
Word Disputation does not exist in French but is found in Latin and English.
“Disputatio” in Latin, definition in Gaffiot dictionary:
Action to examine an issue in its different points, weighing the pros and cons, discussion, dissertation; computation.
“Disputation” in English; definition of “The American Heritage Dictionary“:
The act of disputing; debate. An academic exercise consisting of a formal debate or an oral defense of a thesis.
What differentiates the male and the female part? Why Lacan says that there is no sexual report/relationship? And that THE woman does not exist? We try to explain these provocative assertions. They are less so when one considers that “man” and “women” are only meaningful.
Also it teaches us that the Other is nothing else that the other sex.
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