Lacan: Topologically SpeakingOther Press, LLC, 17 août 2004 - 440 pages The study of topology examines the way something can change shape while still retaining the same properties. Jacques Lacan devoted the last part of his teaching to the topology of the subject. During the 50s, he gauged the topology of surfaces (torus, Moebius strips, Klein bottles, crosscaps) and from 1972 on, he studied the topology of knots (Borromean, the sinthome). Showing that bodily and mental life function topologically, he did what no one had done before: he added to the logic of how representations function, the logic of jouissance or libidinal meaning that "materializes" language by making desire, fantasy, and the partial drives ascertainable functions of it. For Lacan, topology is neither myth nor metaphor. It is the precise way we may understand the construction and appearance of the subject. Space is multidimensional in terms of both meaning and logic. Lacanian topology answers questions of post-structuralism while revealing the flaws in its theories. It also advances a 21st-century teaching that obviates symbolic logic and its positivistic assumptions. Applications are made to the clinic, to literature, and to the social sciences. The authors collected here include world renowned Lacanian topologists such as Jacques-Alain Miller, Jeanne Lafont, Jean-Paul Gilson, Pierre Skriabine, Juan-David Nasio, Jean-Michel Vappereau, and several new theorists from the United States and Europe. |
Table des matières
Topology and Efficiency | 3 |
Mathemes Topology in the Teaching of Lacan | 28 |
Lacans Topological Unit and the Structure of Mind | 49 |
Topology of Surfaces | 71 |
Clinic and Topology The Flaw in the Universe | 73 |
Objet a and the Crosscap | 98 |
Floating between Original and Semblance | 117 |
Interpretation and Topological Structure | 134 |
To Poe Logically Speaking From The Purloined Letter to the Sinthome | 205 |
Topology of Knots | 247 |
The Clinic of the Borromean Knot | 249 |
The Square of the Subject | 268 |
The Topology of the Subject of Law The Nullibiquity of the Fictional Fifth | 282 |
Specious Aristmystic Joycean Topology | 314 |
Making Rings The Hole of the Sinthome in the Embedding of the Topology of the Subject | 328 |
Borromean Knots Le Sinthome and Sense Production in Law | 361 |
The Inside Out of the Dangerous Mentally IllTopological Applications to Law and Social Justice | 150 |
Psychoanalytic Semiotics Chaos and Rebellious Lawyering | 174 |
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