
The Drive, Episode 3
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Unconscious in a Topology
The analyst is on the outside. This is an opening that is now closed, and there's something calling from the inside. I would wager that this is the unconscious that calls forth from behind a closed cave door to an analyst waiting to get in. Not just where is the cave, but how does it close? Position doesn't just mean where there is an incipient how in that where. Also the way the closures are opened. We have to account for what we have to Account for as a gap, beat, or alternating section by following some of Freud's indications. And that is what I have proceeded to do in grounding the unconscious in a topology.
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