Category Archives: Psychoanalysis

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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Topologos Lutecium Conversation #01 Borromean

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First of a series of conversations between John Gasperoni and Jacques B. Siboni. A conversation around the Borromean Knot and the carving of the real by the symbolic and the imaginary

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #28 Four threads nodes, a sinthome

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Four threads nodes, a sinthome

A discussion around the four Borromean knot and the sinthome, with some disagreements on the possible and the impossible of transformations

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Jacques Siboni channel on YouTube

Since YouTube has took account that we had not violated their community rules, the topologos channel has been reinstalled.
Its access is at this channel

These videos are accessible through Lutecium, YouTube and DailyMotion at this place

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #27 The power of the signifier

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Topologies of the object a

“I shoot 7 on a single strike” It is through this signifier that the tale of the Valiant Little Tailor of Grimm opens. We illustrate how a signifier is the bearer of a special power. What can be induced for each signifier?

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #26 The object a in its nodal topologies

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Topologies of the object a

Among the topological considerations of the object a, We focus today on its nodal approaches. The number of consistencies (number of rounds of string) conditions the structure.

  • One consistency: the knot of the paranoid
  • Two consistencies: the knot of the fantasy
  • Three consistencies: the knot of neurosis
  • Three unwound consistencies: schizophrenia
  • Four consistencies: the knot of the sinthome

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #25 The Trou-matism (5)

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The Trou-matism

Return on the four sessions on the logic of fantasy. Also rewriting of the constitution of the Real by the Symbolic, Imaginary association, the trauma that leaves a hole, the hole-matism.
(The 20 first minutes have a mediocre sound quality)

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #24 The fundamental polygon

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The fundamental polygon

Lacan has accustomed us to display the constituents of the subject on topological structures. Here for the sake of simplification (!) We present these structures in a singular way, a rectangle. It's the fundamental polygon.
This concerns the sphere, the ring of Moebius, the cylinder, the disc, the projective plane, the torus, the Klein's bottle. A consequence is that this session is rather austere …

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