Brussels 1967, Jean-Jacques Abrahams, young theatrical, decide at 28 years old, after 14 years of analysis, to turn against his psychiatrist (jean-Louis Van Nypelseer) ; He will be interned as a result of this recording, will escape from Brugmann Hospital and flee to the USA where he will publish in 1976 THE MAN WITH THE TAPE RECORDER ed: Sagittaire. This recording has […]
#45 A cosmogony compatible with the subject's structure of the unconscious? Elements of the topology of the cosmos by Jean-Pierre Petit, the Janus model are presented by Gérard Crovisier. The unexpected is, except for one detail, this model is consistent with the conception of the subject taught to us by Jacques Lacan. So there are two parts; in […]
#44 The four discourses, encore! With Michel Roussan we continue our exploration of the four categories of discourse developed by Doctor Jacques Lacan. All our workshops: This is it
#43 Movements in four discourses An oriented tetrahedron makes it possible to explain the movements present in the discourses on the teacher, on the hysterical, on the university and on the analyst. Also some remarks on the refusal of the Catholic Church and the Lutheran Reformation to recognize heliocentrism. Henry Fontana passed on to me his approach to life and […]
#42 Psychology of the masses Sigmund Freud, quoting Le Bon, marks the subject, member of the masses, the seal of barbarism. Michel Roussan analyzes Freud's text “Mass psychology and ego analysis” of 1921 and attaches this work to the structure of the four discourses invented by Jacques Lacan. Connections with our […]
#41 The master, the slave, the university, Science “The slave is defined by the fact that someone has power over his body” that is what Jacques Lacan told us. The master needs tools to ensure the docility of the slave. In the past it was the whip, the rifle, the police, judges etc. Nowadays new tools are […]
A conversation with John Gasperoni at the time of Covid-19. Will there be an evolution of capitalism at a future time?
A new conversation with John Sheridan, leftist artist/activist. After disputing about the problematics induced by capitalism in France and the USA, and its incompatibility with human welfare, we come to the second one in which we will try to transmit the rough sketches of our understanding of the solutions French and US activists have invented […]
#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, […]
A conversation with John Sheridan left artist/activist about the problematics induced by capitalism in France and the USA, and its incompatibility with human welfare. This is the first of a series of two. The second one will try to transmit the rough sketches of our understanding of the solutions French and US activists have invented […]