Samo Tomšič
Researcher Theory
01.01.09 – 31.12.10
Jacques Lacan's final teaching has rarely been discussed without a certain malaise. One of the reasons for this malaise can be seen in the fact that the later developments concern the limits of psychoanalysis and detach it from its ‘traditional’ connections and alliances, notably with philosophy and science. Simultaneously, Lacan declares his anti-philosophical position, which, in philosophy, is often perceived as an insult.
In his late proposition on teaching psychoanalysis at university, anti-philosophy is linked to three disciplines: linguistics, mathematical logics and topology. Together they form a disciplinary knot that should serve as a tool for transmission of knowledge. On the other hand, to a psychoanalyst, they all offer an orientation in thinking. This orientation concerns the question of the real, which is for Lacan not a matter of cognition, but rather that of invention.
In 2010, my research work concerns the development of the concept of the real in Lacan's teaching. It follows the proposed disciplinary quadrivium, focusing on the subversion of linguistics through the concept of enjoyment, the paradoxes of mathematical formalisation, topological materialism and anti-philosophical forcing of thinking.
Slovenj Gradec, SI
PhD in Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Research assistant. Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, SI.
Bourse d’étude du Gouvernement français.
Materialism(s). (24 November). With Pietro Bianchi, Gal Kirn, Eli Noé & Tzuchien Tho. Ljubljana, SI: Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Women, part 2. Positions of being. (17 March). In: Janvantastic cineclub. Screening programme. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Archeology as structuralist philosophy. In: Filozofski vestnik, 3.
History of sexuality or archeology of psychoanalysis? In: Filozofski vestnik, 3, pp. 161-175.
What is antiphilosophy? Ljubljana, SI: University of Ljubljana.
Antiphilosophy and topology. (24 November). In: Materialism(s). Ljubljana, SI: Institute of Philosophy of Ljubljana.
Language matter: Poetic subversion of linguistics. (13 September). Brussels, BE: Maelstrom Editions.
Psychoanalysis. From subjectivation to subjection? (5 September). In: The politics of life. Michel Foucault and the biopolitics of modernity. Stockholm, SE: Södertörn University.
Talking masks: Prosopopoeia in philosophy and psychoanalysis. (3 July). In: Voice day. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Topology as materialist theory of the subject. (28 February). Paris, FR: Galerie Martine Aboucaya.
What is antiphilosophy? In: Opening week 2009. (14 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Psychoanalysis between stupidity and forcing. (16 December). Ljubljana, SI: Peace Institute.
Archeology as structuralist philosophy. (12 November). In: Michel Foucault, life and praxis of freedom. Ljubljana, SI: Institute of Philosophy of Ljubljana.
Lacan’s antireligious act: The lessons of dissolution and the intervention of the real. In: The triumph of religion. (19 – 20 September). Nijmegen, NL: Radboud University.
About presence and absence. (9 May). In: Cameracartell scenario III. Absence and presence. Talk and discussion. Maastricht, NL: Hedah.