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What
every schoolchild should know. . .
[5/2000]
By Ika B.
Roub
The reception of
psychoanalysis in the grand public is a baffling
episode in the intellectual history of the
twentieth century, an episode which is not
finished and will have no doubt to be followed
closely in the twenty-first. As such, the
Los Angeles Times and the Skirball
Cultural Center, are to be applauded for
presenting a series of articles on Freud and
psychoanalysis (3/30-31/2000), and a family art
workshop on "Freud: Inkblots and Dreams"
(at the Skirball Cultural Center).
What is remarkable about the LA Times
presentation is that it has had, not only the
courage to enter into this century, but has
enclosed these articles in the entertainment
section for children. For it seems today that
Freud and psychoanalysis can be packaged as
entertainment and made consumable even to the
child. So much so, that it is no longer a
question of the psychoanalytic observation of
the child (as it was founded in the work of
Freud's daughter, Anna Freud, and the celebrated
work of Melanie Klein), but the child's
observations of psychoanalysis. A truly
extraordinary inversion!
The question is however, not whether the
Freudian invention of psychoanalysis is a
cultural consumption beneficial to the child,
for it can always be posed as such, but rather
we must ask if these articles and exhibitions
actually succeed in presenting the child a true
idea of psychoanalysis. And if not, then what
are we subjecting the child to in the name of
cultural merchandising and entertainment?
Conversely, what are we subjecting
psychoanalysis to in such a "childish"
presentation?
No doubt, imagining the reader/spectator of the
articles and exhibitions to be a child guided by
the family, is an effective way to force the
author(s) to write simply. In careless hands
however, this type of writing results in a
misunderstanding which confuses simplicity with
not only facility, but banality. In the best of
cases, the reader is confronted with nothing
other than false and superficial information (a
vulgarization), and in the worst of cases one is
left with the charm and suggestions of the
writer seeking to make the reader consent by
whatever means (hypnosis).
Whatever the case may be, such introductions
inspire a false or comic Woody-Allenesque notion
of psychoanalysis by overrating its apparent
frivolity in relation to dreams and cultural
activities, while underestimating its relation
to reality and simplicity itself. For indeed,
psychoanalysis, once put into relation to that
which is simple — and not banal — finds its
natural ally not simply in the birth of the
child, but the birth of science.
Even as an adult who truly admires the
intuitions of infants and realizes that their
categories often go beyond those of their
parents, I am still embarrassed to admit that I
often read the children's section of the
newspaper just to test those qualities which are
supposed to characterize my maturity. Yet, as I
have become over the last few years attuned to
the finer points of the children's sections of
various newspapers and magazines, I feel my
judgment on such matters might be of use in
stabilizing the field, especially as it concerns
the relationship of the "child-ish" to
psychoanalysis.
In opening up the discussion with the in-fant
(literally, in Latin, meaning the one without
speech), I will merely begin by outlining
what every schoolchild should know about
psychoanalysis and mathematical sequences.
continued :
PLACE
(Psychoanalysis
Los Angeles California Extension)
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Govern, Educate, Psychoanalyze ?
Joyce the Symptom :
Conference given by J. Lacan in the large auditorium of the
Sorbonne on the 16th of June, 1975
Illiteracy and Sexuation -
(French
Essai on illiteracy), by
Charley Supper (Download)
The Lost Topology of
Psychoanalysis (La Topologie Perdue de la Psychanalyse) ,
by Robert Groome
What is "a cartel" in psychoanalysis ?
Recurso a las propuestas de Gottlob Frege,
by
Luisa Matallana
(Spanish
text)
Corrected drawings of the text of Lacan : "Le
Sinthome", by Gérard Crovisier
The topological Denouement of the cure,
by Robert
Groome
The
Borromean Knot - Definition
Invention of the concept of "Real" by Lacan,
from Charley Supper
Frege's Predicate Calculus and Theory of Concepts
(Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
THE LINGUISTIC DIT-MENSION OF SUBJECTIVITY,
by Paula Murphy
Lacan's version of the Signifer
The
Signifer "Europe"
The
lying of illiteracy
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Illiteracy and Topology - Adam and Eve,
by Charley Supper
Topology-Knots and Unknots
Illiteracy - Stop with warlike terminology !
Illiteracy
and Globalisation by Charley Supper
Free Internet publications on education
(Canadian)
El poder de la
palabra vacía (The
Power of the Empty Word)
Hugo Calello y Susana Neuhaus - An analysis of
the populist political discourse, supported by the disguisable plan
regarding the ideology as language and by Adorno's idea of "empty word".
Text (in spanish
only)
Knot theory
Iconicity and Metaphor in Sign Languages
: Recent Studies by Sarah Lind
What is
Psychoanalysis ?
Illiteracy and Sexuation
What is
Topology ?
Pas Tout Lacan :
All the writtings of Lacan (in French)
to download on "L'école lacanienne de
Psychanalyse"
Topology-Adam and
Eve ,
by Charley Supper
Illiteracy and topology
definitions
Another approach towards illiteracy
What is Psychoanalysis ?
Illiteracy and
Globalisatio n
Illiteracy and Topology
: The knot theory
Iconicity and Metaphor in Sign
Languages : Recent Studies by
Sarah Lind
What is
illiteracy for us ?
One often confuses analphabetism,
illiteracy, school delay, mental
backwardness, dyslexia, dumbness and autism,
...
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Concerning the
"B4", they are people who made studies
(secondary or more) in their country but did
not acquire the language from here ; they
cannot thus write, nor speak or read French.
School delay
is generally caused by a traumatism of the
child who did not solve yet his problems
involved in the Oedipus or who is held by
the meshes of a family pathology.
Mental
backwardness, we will say to go quickly
that it is the result as well of a genetic
heritage (like "trisomy 21" or alcoholism),
than of a trauma not solved concerning the
Oedipus. It is also the hold-all where all
the handicaps are indexed which medicine
does not manage to look after (dyslexia,
dumbness, anorexia, bulimia, autism,
etc...).
Illiteracy,
we tried to approach it's symptoms and we
affirm that it comes from a non inscription,
a non recording of the sexuation symbolic
system.
These various situations also involve a
whole range of administrative pathologies.
Illiteracy and
Topology-Adam
and Eve
:
Topology don't care about quantity but only
works on quality. This reason makes it easy
to work on unconsciousness and language
which work the same way.
If you consider
Illiteracy through Topology, the results are
perfectly coherent and performing. Using
only Quality references, makes you discover
at once what is the problem : Sexuation
!
What is Topology ?
:
Topology
is a part of mathematics. Their is two
separate, distinct sections (one on general,
point set topology, the other on algebraic
topology). Independent topics and
applications exist too, like in
psychoanalysis and in linguistics...
What is Psychoanalysis
?
:
Psychoanalysis is the name of a procedure
for the investigation of mental processes
which are almost inaccessible in any other
way and can be the object of serious
investigation. Psychoanalysis is concerned
not only with the singular experience of an
individual analysis, but is equally
preoccupied with and applied to the entirety
of human phenomena in which the unconscious
is involved...
Some of our
other pages about illiteracy :
by Charley
Supper
Illiteracy and Sexuation
The Signifer "Europe"
by Charley Supper
The lying of illiteracy
by Charley Supper
What is Psychoanalysis ?
What is Topology ?
Iconicity and Metaphor in Sign Languages
: Recent Studies by Sarah Lind
Illiteracy and Topology
Topology-Knots and Unknots
-
A
knot
is a simple closed curve in 3-dimensional space
Other web sites
on Topology or mathematics
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
What is Topology
?
by Eric Weisstein
Geometry & Topology
Earlham.edu
Knots on the Web
Knot
theory
Other
interesting web
site on psychoanalysis (www.topoi.net)
PLACE - Psychoanalysis Los Angeles
California Extension
What is Lacanian psychoanalysis ?
Is it true that mental illness and
psychic suffering are reducible to neurological
dysfunctioning or a chemical imbalance of the brain?*
What is the psychoanalytic Sinthome
and its cure?
What are the credentials of a
Psychoanalyst?
Can psychoanalysis be used in dealing
with substance abuse - alcoholism, eating disorders, drug
addiction, etc.?
Does the combined treatment of
psychotherapy and psychiatry cure the patient of psychic
suffering?
Do modern
forms of spiritualism such as Yoga or Zen, or forms of
adventure such as joining the Foreign
How does Lacanian analysis address the
question of mysticism ?
Is topology used as a model in
psychoanalysis ?
What is a
psychoanalytic position on current DNA research and
homosexuality ?
Learning French online
Languageguide.org
- The Guide of every
days words and current English and French expressions
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