To Be Continued?...
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Today

Part II
16–18 April 2024

Holden M. Rasmussen
Marisa Žele
Aleš Mendiževec
Voranc Kumar
Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
Arka Chattopadhyay
Boštjan Nedoh
Tadej Troha
Adrian Johnston
Mladen Dolar
Henrik Jøker Bjerre
Aleš Bunta
Adam Potts
Alenka Zupančič
Lorenzo Chiesa
Joan Copjec
Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Moritz Herrmann
Arsalan Reihanzadeh
Paris Lavidis
Nadia Bou Ali
Peter Klepec
Mohamed Tal
Frank Ruda
Ray Brassier


Part I
15–17 November 2023

Holden M. Rasmussen
Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Moritz Herrmann
Paris Lavidis
Vesna Liponik
Arsalan Reihanzadeh
Adrian Johnston
Jelica Šumič Riha
Tadej Troha
Boštjan Nedoh
Marisa Žele
Aleš Bunta
Peter Klepec
Alenka Zupančič
Lorenzo Chiesa


To Be Continued? ... 
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  • We can certainly say that the dialogue between philosophy and psychoanalysis, however prolix, has so far proved very difficult, ever since the latter’s inception. Is there such thing as a philosophy-psychoanalysis relationship? Or has it always been only empty speech? In that case, should it be continued?
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Moritz Herrmann (Newcastle University)


Un peu de topologie maintenant…: Between Psychoanalytic Experience and Discourse


One must situate Lacan’s crucial and indeed unignorable recourse to topology within L'Étourdit at the folding of psychoanalysis into both the “discourse of the analyst” as well as, reading through and beyond the text, a potential “discourse of psychoanalysis”. To this effect: (1) Topology, in Lacan's hands, first and foremost formalizes the “swelling” (gonfle) of sense out of the ab-sens of the sexual relation. (2) The relation between the dire and the dit, around which L'Étourdit revolves, can or must be called topological; this, in turn, depends on the fact that Lacan's topology only “says” this if its very saying is “resaid” discursively. (3) Psychoanalytic praxis is one of a dire whose topology prescribes a revision of the transcendental aesthetic giving the structure of psychoanalytic experience.