How is repetition automatism a particular form of automaton? This is an attempted answer, (but not very satisfying for my taste). An example is given from a song taken from the album “Mechanical Music” by Carla Bley.
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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.”
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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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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There are several versions of the paper 3 ≠ 4, discours entre group et foule that were later revised; the earlier known versions of this paper can be found below.
[Added: 2025/08/25]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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Global Center for Advanced Studies is hosting a series of lectures about
Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis
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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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.
[Added: 2025/08/24]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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