Preparation of the Focus on About Psychic Causality

“About Psychic Causality” by Jacques Lacan in 1946 by Pierre Belon

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #54 The Banshees of Inisherin

#54 The Banshees of Inisherin This film by Martin McDonagh describes the inhabitants of a small island in Ireland at the end of the war between Protestants and Catholics in 1923. In this community, no psychiatrist, no recognition of any mental illness. Even serious self-harm is not recognized as a sign of […]

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #53 Aristotle and psychoanalysis

#53 Aristotle and psychoanalysis Michel Roussan, following Emmanuel Brassat, associates Aristotelian causalities with Lacanian structures of the drive and the graph of desire. All our workshops: This is it

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #52 Causalities in Aristotle

#52 Causalities in Aristotle Emmanuel Brassat was kind enough to tell us about the notion of the four causalities that Aristotle introduced. The material cause, the formal cause, the efficient cause, the final cause. All our workshops: This is it

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #51 The Inner Eight

#51 The interior eight Jean-Jacques Allégret and Pierre Baron evoke this topological structure that Lacan uses in particular in the four concepts of psychoanalysis and in the Analytical Act All our workshops: This is it

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #50 Readings The Man with the Tape Recorder and Zoo Story

#50 Reading "The Man with the Tape Recorder" and "Zoo Story", the suite It is by noticing a particular resemblance between the recording of “The Man with the Tape Recorder” and Edward Albee's play “Zoo Story” that Jean François La Bouverie and I have decided to bring them together during a reading. In the first it is an internment by proxy, and in […]

Documents concerning “The Man with the Tape Recorder”

Pierre Belon has compiled various documents concerning Jean-Jacques Abrahams, said the Man with the tape recorder, here they are: Chronology 1964 at 1976 All documents relating to Jean-Jacques Abrahams

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #49 The Man with the Tape Recorder, second part …

#49 The man with the tape recorder, Pierre Belon and Jean-François La Bouverie present their experiences of their encounter with the Man with the Tape Recorder, text encounter for one, by a meeting for the other. All our workshops: This is it

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #48 Can we be normal without repression?

#48 Normality without repression Following the workshop where we heard Peter Brook play “I am a phenomenon”, We try to answer the question “Can we be normal without repression?” This phenomenal human has full access to his memories since he was 1 year old. He is forced to invent a […]

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #47 I am a phenomenon

#47 I am a phenomenon Recording of a private reading of Peter Brook's play “I am a phenomenon”. Played by the actors Jean-François La Bouverie, Jules Lanzaro, Justine Schmitt. This is the play based on the essay of A . R. Luria about a mnemonist with a phenomenal memory ability. His name is […]