Mobius Band

Freudian Repetition and Negation Part II

Date: January 26, 2021
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  • Winter 2021 Seminar
  • Starting Date: Sat., Jan. 30, 2021
  • Time: 10:00am-12:30pm
  • Place: Euclid
  • Frequency: 2ndand 4th of every month
  • Instructor: R. T. Groome
At this time, and with respect to the current pandemic conditions, the Winter-Spring 2021 semester of PLACE will only be held via Zoom. If the conditions should change during the semester, we will open the seminar once again to in-person participation. If you plan on attending, please make sure we have your Zoom address before the first meeting. All seminars are recorded and can be accessed at a later time.
The argument of the Seminar This PLACE seminar continues our Fall 2020 Semester by taking up where we left off with the problem of Freudian Repetition and Negation.
Previously, we closely read two texts of Freud, one on Repetition (Remembering, Repetition, and Working-Through, 1914) and one on Negation (Denegation 1925), then left as an exercise over the holidays for the participant to show how they are inherent in Freud’ seminal dream on Repetition ‘Father can’t you see I am burning?’ (Interpretation of Dreams, Chpt. 7 - Psychology of the Dream Process).
As a prevision of the regulation of the aporias still found in the Freudian text, we distinguished between two different repetitions and negations: synchronic and diachronic then proceeded to isolate their operation with the schemas of Lacan in the use of the caption point (synchronic repetition). We concluded the semester by opening a parenthesis on how the problem of Freudian repetition and negation gives rise to an interior topology on the plane and the Mobius band; giving not only a non-illustrative presentation of the Freudian concepts of the unconscious but de-negation. During the Fall 2020 seminar, the Mobius band had only been presented descriptively in an interior topology built up from simply propositional logic, but room was made to present the band algebraically in a theory of groups.
The seminar is open to those in the audience who care to present their constructive work either in linguistics, logic, or topology with regard to these problems. Beginning on January 30thj, we will proceed to show how the formalization of a Mobius structure allows, finally, for a return to Freudian repetition and negation, in a more adequate way: not simply interpretatively, but constructively.
To confirm the necessity of our clinical reading – the symptom is never isolated by interpretations of sense and commentary – we aim to return in the Winter-Spring semester to the texts of Lacan on Repetition and Negation to see, if, by ‘chance’, Lacan has himself become more readable, once his topology is not merely viewed as illustrations and metaphors, but actually made to work with the argument of his texts. With this symptomatic reading in place, we return to four fundamental texts on repetition and negation, to construct our way out of the current dis-contents:
1) The Unconscious and Repetition, - The Four Foundational Concepts of Psychoanalysis: XI, Part I, 1964 and 2) Introduction to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s Verneinung, Ecrits,1954. 3) Response to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s Verneinung, Écrits, 1954. 4) The Position of the Unconscious, Écrits 1969.
The 2021 Winter-Spring seminar is open to anyone, at any level, with or without any previous work in logic, mathematics, or Lacanian analysis.   Cordially, R.T. Groome Winter, Los Angeles, CA