Psychoanalysis: Topological Perspectives: New Conceptions of Geometry and Space in Freud and Lacan

by Michael Friedman (Editor), Samo Tomsic (Editor)

Overview

The volume addresses the philosophical, epistemological and interdisciplinary aspects of the link between psychoanalysis and topology. Looking at the historical developments of psychoanalytic theory, one can hardly overlook the significant presence of architectonic and geometrical references that traverse Freud's writings. Lacan's return to Freud made a decisive step in taking these metaphors seriously and engaged with the mathematical correspondence of Freud's topological models. He thereby intensified the link with topology, which obtained an important didactic and conceptual value. The contributions highlight the ongoing relevance of this "topological turn" in psychoanalysis by exploring both concrete topological objects and outline the philosophical framework that supports the relation of psychoanalysis to topology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837634402
Publication date:	02/07/2017
Series:	Psychoanalyse
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael Friedman (PhD) works in the interdisciplinary laboratory "Image Knowledge Gestaltung" at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.
Samo Tomsic (PhD) works in the interdisciplinary laboratory "Image Knowledge Gestaltung" at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.

Table of Contents

Introduction: That Obscure Space of Thinking Michael Friedman Samo Tomšic 7

Part I The Spatiality of Thought

Psychoanalysis and Topology - Four Vignettes Mai Wegener 31

Why Topology? Dominiek Hoens 53

Voice and Topology: The Tiny Lag Mladen Dolar 63

Towards a New Transcendental Aesthetics? Samo Tomšic 95

Part II The Materiality of Topology

Secret Topology: Lacan's Optical Models and Schemata as a Combination of Mathematics, Media, and Art Claudia Blümle 127

Torus and Identification: The Beginning of Lacanian Mathematics Michael Friedman 153

The Unreadable Letter: A Topology of the Image-Knowledge Renen Amir 191

The Spatiality of Being: Topology as Ontology in Lacan's Thinking of the Body Rona Cohen 227

List of Figures 251

Authors 253