Lacan to the Limits: Instrumental Convergence and the Cut of Psychoanalysis
The idea of instrumental convergence, a combination of chance and necessity and the basis of the idea of exaptation (biological emergence) is critical in Lacanian psychoanalysis. But, to prove this point, it is necessary to push Lacan to the breaking point. Justification for this comes from Lacan himself, whose “mi-dire” style of lecturing made many think that he was the victim of Wernicke’s Aphasia, “when someone is able to speak well and use long sentences, but what they say may not make sense.” This video considers Lacan's mi-dire as a cut, a katagraphic cut, producing two chiaralistic edges that can substitute for the loss of the (scientific) principle of the modus tolens (that any proposition, to be scientific, must be refutable). A number of new terms are introduced to operationalize this "criticism by the cut," and a "Department Store Thesis" argues that the projective geometry principles of (1) an existential lack/surplus, (2) the spatial void, and (3) a corresponding temporal void are embodied in the modern institution of shopping. In Berlin's Ka/de/we, Helsinki's Stockmann, or Paris's La Samaritaine, we find these critical principles embodied in architectural forms that extend our idea of the "topologized" metaphor. Only by superimposing the fundamental polygon over Lacan's formula for metaphor do we see the way its four-part invention involves instrumental convergence, or how the rules of the game become the game itself.
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This channel is a hidden treasure. Looking forward to your chapter in the Palgrave Lacan volume!
These videos are such a pleasure to watch. Do you have a Patreon or some other way to support future videos? Many thanks
How can one think this much complex and brilliant? Amazing video!
@boundarylanguage
8 ай бұрын
I'm struggling along. Thanks for you encouraging remarks!
Extremely insightful-your observations on the foundational nature of subjective topology are illustrative and add significant interest to its study. Always a fan.
@boundarylanguage
8 ай бұрын
Always nice to have you! thanks
Donald, do you know about the mathematical operation called convolution? It is defined as the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted. One function is essentially "read backwards" into the other function that it's convolved with. Inversion, generation of a 3rd thing from competing inputs, there's something Lacanian about that, isnt there?
@boundarylanguage
8 ай бұрын
I heard of convolution once in passing but didn't understand it. However what you say is very interesting; I will go back and check it out. Thanks
I think I said this on another video but I recently learned that a mathematician has proven that the minimum length required to form a Möbius strip is root three which is the proportional length of the vesica pisces. I'm still struggling to comprehend the mayhems though so I'm certainly not sure how to apply the data I'm throwing out now
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@boundarylanguage
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for these comments. I will look into convolution. I heard about it once but am pretty unread in mathematics, but this may turn out to be something very important for this project. Thanks.