MIT Lecture on Topology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology : 2nd December 1975 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on December 2, 1975
This Text is part of the Conferences and Conversations in North American Universities.
Title: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2, 1975
Published by University of Missouri, M. I. T.: here
Translated by Jack W. Stone
Available here
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An edited version is now available p31 to 38 of The Lacanian Review , Issue 05 : July 2018 : Translated by Jack W Stone & Russell Grigg : Retitled, ‘MIT lecture on Topology’
Published in French:
Title: 1975-12-02, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scilicet n° 6/7, 1975, p53-63
Now published electronically at ‘pas tout Lacan’ here
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Translations by {i} Jack W. Stone {ii} Jack W. Stone with Russell Grigg
Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (41. Lacan: Seminar at MIT: December 02, 1975)
REPUBLICATION
Translation by Jack W. Stone with Russell Grigg of Scilicet 6/7 (1976) p53-63, The Lacanian Review 5 (2018) p31-38, republished as ‘MIT Lecture on Topology, 2 December 1975 – Jacques Lacan, in The Lacanian Review No 12, June 2022, p87-95.
Introduction by Duane Rousselle :
Psychoanalysis, neither science nor philosophical wisdom; a practice oriented by structure, the Borromean knot. The body in psychoanalysis is approached as that which is most imaginary, a sack of skin, a net with holes, a surface onto which man projects everything.
“… with holes. Shock, in return.”
Lacan said: “a real that is entirely real, well…” Lacan said: “[t]here is a hole. Because there is a knot, and some real that remains, deep down.” Lacan circles back to the letter, the signifier, which is not a phoneme: “only letters make holes.”
So: is the aim of analysis to undo the knot, and to approach the real that remains there, deep down?
Lacan’s answer: “No, that holds fast.”
Duane Rousselle, The Lacanian Review No 12, June 2022, p86
Index/Contents
Opening : Linguistics is that by which psychoanalysis could hook on to science. But psychoanalysis is not a science; it is a practice.
Topology p5
Questions to Roman Jacobsen p11
Lacan on the blackboard p12
Question of Mr Quine, The aim (but) of analysis is to un-make the knot? p13 : ‘One could advance that if Freud demonstrates something, it is that sexuality makes a hole, but the human being hasn’t the least idea what this is. A woman presents herself for the man by a symptom; a woman is a symptom for the man. ‘
The Soul p13 : For quote see The Unconscious Testifies to a Real of Its Own : 15th January 2019 : Yves Vanderveken or here
Do the knots have three dimensions? P14
Question of Mr. Quine: solid models give us an idea of the third dimension. It is only vision that misses it. P14
Impromptu on Analytic Discourse p15
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Further texts
Yale University: 24th November 1975: Conversation with Students: Jacques Lacan or here
Yale University: 24th November 1975: ‘Kanzer Seminar’: Jacques Lacan or here
Yale University: 25th November 1975: Law School Auditorium: Jacques Lacan or here
Columbia University Auditorium, School of International Affairs: 1st December 1975: Jacques Lacan or here
Massachusetts Institute of Technology : 2nd December 1975: Jacques Lacan or here
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