Category Archives: Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan Seminar XIX …or worse 1971-1972
Jacques Lacan Seminar XXIV The unknowing that one knows-a-blunder is about to die 1976 – 1977
1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #40 Chaos and Rule 30
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#40 Chaos and Rule 30
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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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #39 Formulas of Sexuation #02
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#39 The formulas of sexuation #02
Back to the formulas of sexuation. Many issues needed clarification. That's what we tried to do.
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Videos of Topologos-Lutecium Disputations
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.
The sessions of Topologos-Lutecium disputations
- #01 Meaning and Concept Relationship between signifier and concept
- #02 Plasticity of the object a The object a in the projective plane
- #03 Chains General Equation Equation about the knot theory
1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #38 Formulas of Sexuation
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#38 The formulas of sexuation
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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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #37 Logics and Aristotle
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#37 Logics and Aristotle
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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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #36 Neighborhoods, Graph, Graph of desire
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#36 Neighborhoods, Graph, Graph of desire
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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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #35 Empty torus, solid torus?
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Empty torus, solid torus?
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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