THE LETTER 61 Spring 2016, pages 31-34 This overview of Lacan’s Seminar XXIV from 1976-77 addresses the many layers of meaning discernible in its title L’insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile à mourre. Lacan’s remarkable return to the topology of … Continue reading
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The Letter 59 & 60 Summer – Autumn 2015, pages 57-62 This paper considers the notion of psychoanalysis as a ‘mapping out’ which was put forward by Lacan in his 24th Seminar, L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à … Continue reading
THE LETTER 50 Summer 2012, pages 23-46 Structure ana-lyses the neurotic torus, by re-ascending towards the cross-cap that makes it possible. It dismantles the torus into a Moebius strip which allows the analyser, at the end of analysis, to rediscover … Continue reading
Issue 43 (Spring 2010) Pages – 79-105 Lacan used topology to theorise in a scientific way the structure of the subject. The topological field is a central part of his thinking and the first indications of this took place in … Continue reading