2018 Winter-Spring Seminar: Constructing Oedipus – Sat. Jan. 27 at 10:00am

2018 Winter-Spring Seminar: Constructing Oedipus – Sat. Jan. 27 at 10:00am

Date: January 22, 2018
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The doxa of the contemporary commentaries is to either exclude a reference to the Oedipus Complex or bypass it as a relic of a bygone era without accounting for the aporias in Freud or their structural resolution in the work of Lacan. We have returned to Lacan to show why Freud's  Oedipus Complex must be constructed and not interpreted, pro or con, in the infinite commentaries on psychoanalysis. In past seminars we introduced the Oedipus Complex in:

1) Optics: The Oedipus as Mirror;

2) Logic (propositional and predicate): The Oedipus Complex is not Universal, but the Universal is the Oedipus Complex;

3) Topology: Graphs, Surfaces, and Knots: The Introduction of the fourth round into the Borromean introduces the Oedipus in the Sinthome of Freud;

4) Projective Geometry, Duality, and Symmetry: To construct Lacan's Optical Model more precisely, we transpose it into a projective geometry and examine the different problems of symmetry and duality.

The Winter-Spring 2018 Seminar will begin with (2) Logic, then show the correlations to (1), (3), and (4). A major problem for the debutant is how not to repeat the endless commentaries and interpretations ABOUT psychoanalysis but to disengage an object language so that, finally, we can speak IN an analytic language. To do so, we show how to construct an identity, introduce an object, and name into the language of a logic of predicates, then show why this results in nothing more than Lacan's theory of sexuation.
The seminar is open to anyone and requires no previous background in logic, mathematics, or psychoanalysis. Quine's Methods of Logic will be used as a reference and workbook. The instructor is R. T. Groome. The first seminar is at 10:00am, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018, then is repeated twice per month on the second and last Sat. of every month. See the calendar for confirmations and any updates. To keep up with the bulletins of PLACE with regard to this seminar and the cartels, you should register at:http://www.lacanlosangelespsychoanalysis.com/classes/