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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Aristotelian logic is redescribed especially in its relations between intension ( categories, types, …) and extension (the individuals, instances, …). Gerard Crovisier connects these logics to the clinic of the subject.
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We resume here the topological definition of neighborhood that had been poorly explained. Here as well is definition and example of the concept of finite states graph. This is the first based on the, so called by Lacan, “Graph of desire”. This presentation is based on the 5 first sessions of the seminar 1958-59 “Desire and its interpretation”.
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This question seeks to analyze the non-compatible uses Lacan builds out of a torus.
A discussion took place at the end of the workshop held on 10 December. Each one's certainties revealed to be different!
What I mean by this question is that
— Sometimes the torus is solid (torus belongs to R ^ 3) i.d. real,
symbolic, and imaginary within the Borromean knot.
— Sometimes the torus is empty as on an air chamber; it is a skin
(torus belongs to R ^ 2); i.d. in l'Étourdit where Lacan cuts the skin of a torus to build a two-sided strip and a Moebius strip.
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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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