Category Archives: Psychoanalysis

Jean-Michel Vappereau — Cours 2015 — La fonction du Nœud Pratique des nœuds logiques et des nœuds topologiques — 20 January 2015

Files associated with the 20 January 2015 lecture in the seminar of Jean-Michel Vappereau. A description of this seminar, posted to the Topologie en extension website, can be found below:

Arguments du cour de topologie en extension
de Jean-Michel Vappereau pour l’année 2015
De la fonction du Nœud
Pratique des nœuds logiques
et des nœuds topologiques

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La notion de nœud nous invite à la pratique effective (Wirklichkeit) de la différence et de sa dynamique d’alternance, de répétition et d’identité entre les positions intrinsèque et extrinsèque adoptées par le sujet, lors de la lecture.
Dans le discours de la psychanalyse Freud à désigné cette fonction dés 1914 pour en préciser la notion au cours des années qui ont suivi au titre du Narcissisme. Lacan a inauguré sa contribution aux fondements de la psychanalyse en introduisant son modeste modèle théorique et didactique dit : “du stade du miroir”, qui permet d’interroger et d’étudier ce dont relève le sujet du narcissisme.
Il s’agit bien d’un sujet qui, dans la position intrinsèque à son corps, voit ce corps, par l’intermédiaire d’un miroir, de manière extrinsèque, la dite image narcissique ou spéculaire. Ces notions spécifiques relatives au nœuds renouvelles en les transformant les termes du couple d’opposition : intérieur – extérieur.”

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #16 Degrees of Freedom

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#16 Degrees of freedom

Degrees of liberty in the acts of the subject

We talk about choice and free will; J. Lacan showed, by mathematical examples that the choices of the present are constrained by the past of the subject. This session will continue in the workshop #17, more specifically focused on the repetition automatism

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #15 Phallus

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#15 Phallus

The phallus object and the one who possesses it

The phallus, object so different from the penis, has among other particularity, of only being able to be possessed by one at any given time. What does it confer to the possessor and to the one who is lacking?

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #14 Reality, Hallucination in Psychosis

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#14 Reality, hallucination in psychosis

Reality & hallucination in psychosis

The passage of an object of reality into an object of desire is drastically transformed when a fundamental signifier is foreclosed. The object of reality is then transformed into hallucination.

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Introduction to GCAS Lectures

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Global Center for Advanced Studies is hosting a series of lectures about
Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #13 Object of Reality, Object of Desire

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#13 Object Reality, Desire object

From an object of reality to an object of desire

What is the proximity between the objects that our senses perceive and the conscience that we have on them? If it is very minute, then part of our objects of desire is hallucinatory.

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Jean-Michel Vappereau — La logique du fantasme et sa topologie

Written by Vappereau in Balvanera, using Boolean logic and Eulerian circles to evidence the relationship between separation and alienation constitutive of the “punch” (poinçon) in the formulas of Lacan. This paper represents the “argument” of a larger work by Vappereau entitled “La structure du fantasme (S<>a) dans la poétique d’Aristote comédie de l’Aliénation (l’Avare; Le Balcon de Genet) / tragédie de la Séparation (Oedipe)?” Two versions of this paper exist on the JMV site, both of which are uploaded here.

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #12 Projective Plane

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#12 Projective plane

The projective plane

The projective plan has been used widely by Jacques Lacan, mainly in its cross-cap presentation. What is a projective plane? Is the cross-cap the most relevant way to account for the human psyche?

On the railroad tracks:
— the discourse of the master says: “the railroad tracks are parallel”
— the discourse of the hysterical says: “I see tracks are converging toward a common point”
— the discourse of the university says: “the tracks are parallel and converge in a projective point”
— the discourse of the analyst says: “the subject is structured as a projective space”

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #11 Intension, Extension

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#11 Intension, extension

Psychoanalysis, pass, in intension, in extension

The pass in intension or in extension, psychoanalysis in intension or in extension, What is it when Lacan uses these terms? It seems that he uses these qualifications in a quite remote sense than the one they have in logics

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