The Unary Imaginary: How the Palindrome Introduces an Induction Puzzle into Psychoanalysis

Описание: This is an entirely speculative venture requiring the viewer to have some knowledge of Lacan's Seminar XIII, especially sessions 15, 16, and 17, where Lacan borrows graphics from Girard Desargues' "prismatic" ocular diagrams featuring a "perspective hinge" between the ground plane and picture plane. Gauss's "palindrome solution," the creation of a constant sum within a number series, applies to the Imaginary of the analytical session as modeled by the L-schema. The induction puzzle is a logic of self-intersection, of the frame with the framed, as in the example "There are three erors in this sentance" (the third error is the fact that there are only two errors). Lacan's study of Logical Time uses a classic induction puzzle, the Three Prisoners' Dilemma. The palindrome also uses induction to prove Lacan's principle of "Ex falso, quodlibet sequitur" (Once the idea of error is revised/enlarged, anything is possible"). A follow-up video is under way to expand on the relation of the unary imaginary to topics such as anamorphosis and the gaze. A Farsi translation by Iraj Ghoochani can be found at    • A Farsi Translation of Don. Kunze’s video:...