Definition : 1) A knot is a simple closed curve in 3-dimensional space.   What does that mean? Well, a loop like the one at the left is considered a knot in mathematical knot theory (it is a simple closed curve in 3-dimensional space). In fact this knot has a […]

http://www.freelearning.com Definition: A knot is a simple closed curve in 3-dimensional space.  What does that mean? Well, a loop like the one at the left is considered a knot in mathematical knot theory (it is a simple closed curve in 3-dimensional space). In fact this knot has a special name: […]

INTRODUCTION: Definitions of Literacy Read the definitions below. Decide which one seems to you to be the best definition of literacy. The definitions are phrased in terms of what a person should be able to do to be considered “literate”: able to sign his/her name able to read/write a simple […]

What is a cartel ? 1) Descriptive Unlike the standard attempt to educate the student in psychoanalytic theory on an academic model, PLACE formulates the transmission of psychoanalytic theory in a purely psychoanalytic structure – the cartel. In order to abbreviate this reorientation, the standard professor-student relation is replaced by […]

The “Real” of Lacan: Lacan invents the final version of the concept of Real (which will become the Real of Lacan) in its seminar “the identification” where he speaks unceasingly about the reversal and the inversion and especially about a sentence extracted from Kant where the matter is : “Ein […]

Lacan, Krauss & the unconscious The unconscious is structured like…. Language is central to Lacan’s work from about 1950 on, before the Seminars and all but the earliest of the Écrits. The precise formulation that “the unconscious is structured like a language” first occurs (I think) in Seminar III from […]

Extract from: http://topoi.net-PLACE (Psychanalysis Los Angeles California Extension) La Topologie Perdue de la Psychanalyse Independently of the propositions on culture and nature that thematize the field of psychoanalysis, Lacan has constructed its discipline in a topology (Greek topos [place] + logos [discourse/reason/logic]) which has become a basis on which to […]

On Reading Lacan If one disregards occasional short texts (introductions and afterwords, transcribed improvised interventions and interviews, etc.), Lacan’s oeuvre clearly falls into two groups: seminars (conducted every week during the school-year from 1953 till Lacan’s death, in front of an ever larger public) and é′crits (written theoretical texts). The […]

About the drawings contained in the text : “Le Sinthome”, (Séminaire XXIII by Jacques Lacan ) 1975-1976. The drawings accompanying the text were recopied quickly by those which attended the seminar. The majority of them are erroneous. Gérard CROVISIER redrawn them all in a correct way. NOTES IN CONNECTION WITH […]

In TT 54, research on sociolinguistic aspects of sign languages was briefly summarized. This second article on SLs looks at studies of some of the linguistics resources of SLs, American Sign Language (ASL) in particular. While sign languages (SLs) have long been recognized as being highly iconic, with signs bearing […]