Lacan's L-schema revised

Jacques Lacan’s “L-schema” was developed in relation to his analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Purloined Letter” in Seminar II, “The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis” (1954–1955). The L-schema showed how the attempts of the unconscious to communicate with the subject were blocked by the Imaginary, a vector constructed by the Ego and the “small other,” the object-cause of desire, the vector that appears first in the Mirror Stage. In this revision, the elements are reconfigured to show a graphic correlation between the L-schema and the “RSI System,” Lacan’s model of the three domains of psychoanalysis, the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary, famously illustrated by the overlapping rings of the Borromeo knot, whose interlocking is maintained by a virtual folding of a “last ring” beneath a “first ring.” Gauss coding of the pattern of under and over relationships of the rings reveals that the RSI system is akin to a “Menger (or Mandelbrot) Sponge, where spaces in between over- and under- pairs opens up a portal conditionally relieving the blockage of the message from the unconscious to the subject. This portal is well known to ethnography, the arts, and popular culture. It appears in the forms of anamorphosis, the rebus, and the “detached virtualities” of the double, travel through time, the story in the story, and the contamination of reality by the dream or fiction. For more information, visit http://art3idea.psu.edu/ipsa/.

Видео Lacan's L-schema revised канала Donald Kunze