The Psyche Is Extended — but HOW?

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Saving Xavier Auduard
Donald Kunze
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80 views  Jan 28, 2026
Jacques Lacan called his friend Xavier Auduard on the morning of May 15, 1966, to ask him to make a short presentation during session 18. Audouard hastily assembled his notes and a few drawings. When he redrew his diagrams for the audience, however, they seemed hard to understand. The labelling was confusing and Lacan took them to be about binocular vision. This was not the case. Closer inspection shows that Audoard's thesis revises our view of Lacan's famous "butterfly" diagram from Seminar XI, where the look and gaze are related by two intersecting triangles representing cones of vision. Audouard used two criss-cross parallelograms to emphasize the role of "cathesis," the constancy that held the two cones of vision (dilation) together. This is a rather visually boring video, but the thesis is potentially revolutionary. It suggests that Audouard gives us a visual means of connecting dilation and cathesis to the ancient phenomenon of "ostentum," the Roman type of divine sign that happened in visual perception. Ostenta have not disappeared with the times. Popular culture — film, literature, painting — depends on the logic of the ostentum to induce surprise and suspense.

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 The Psyche Is Extended — but HOW?
Donald Kunze
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520 views  Dec 31, 2025
This video elaboration of how the psyche is extended in time as well as space is really not for beginners. It presumes a reasonable familiarity with Lacan's L-schema, Freud's pithy note about how "Psyche is extended; knows nothing of it"; Lacan's formula for metaphor; and Freud's "parapraxis" (the forgetting of the proper name, "Signorelli"). On top of this, the argument carries into the idea of travel as involving three kinds of circularities; then it claims that circular triplicity relates to the dilation and cathesis of the Imaginary as evidenced in Lacan’s “butterfly diagram” in Seminar XI, “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.” Really! It's not just "not for beginners," it's not even for puzzle-loving Lacanians with years of experience. Yet, there are benefits by comparing all of these models of spatial and temporal extension. The hope is that they may offer a polymorphic-perverse methodology for combining topology with ethnology and, in the process, aligning Lacan's theory of metaphor with that of the 18c. Neapolitan philosopher of culture, Giambattista Vico. If you're up for it, give it a spin but be patient and persistent. This is one of those projects that requires as much work from the viewer as the producer, maybe more!

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Inversion-Induction: A Way to Think about Lacan's Topology as a non-Mathematician
Donald Kunze
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