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S publishes peer-reviewed essays on Lacanian and related topics from the fields of art, film and literary criticism, political, philosophical and ideological critique. With permission, S also re-publishes hard to obtain essays and translations from seminal thinkers in Lacanian studies whose work deserves the worldwide dissemination open access publishing affords.

Call for Papers: S4 Special issue, The Resistance of Topology. Guest editor: Benjamin Bishop

“Un noeud s’écrit couramment comme ça. Cela donne déjà un S.” Lacan, Seminar XXIII, Le Sinthome

S4 explores the function of topology in Lacan’s work and in its afterlife with reference to some of its early practitioners, including Pierre Soury, Michel Thomé and Jean-Michel Vappereau.

Throughout the 1970s Lacan pursues problems of place to their most literal iterations in links, knots and locks. More than just visual icons of key concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis, these objects expose certain structures whose reading and writing challenge classical aesthetic values. By grounding representation within its own conditions – conditions which it understands as material – topology requires a non-trivial use of the trait, which may bring together the clinical and theoretical poles of psychoanalysis, a work Lacan leaves to future analysts. Yet despite its many promises, topology employs a material heterogeneous to analytic theory and bears certain resistances to its clinic. What, if anything, does topology have to do with psychoanalysis?

S invites submissions that respond to this question, read broadly. We are especially interested in pieces that assume a presentation of topology, whose own place in analysis is not yet achieved but invites constructing.

Send submissions by email to bbishop [at] uci.edu or directly through the S website by December 2010.

Vol 2 (2009): Islam and Psychoanalysis

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