the categorification of lacan's mathemes

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• Tachyon

  2014-04-04 05:49:44

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  mathemes
  
  oh no
  
• Tachyon

  2014-04-04 05:51:13 edited 2014-04-04 05:51:29

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  in all seriousness, these were a classic case of physics envy, imo
  
  math is sophisticated, sometimes humanities people get jealous
  
• Previous Calica

  2014-04-04 06:08:48 edited 2014-04-04 06:10:23

  (flower path)

  the one thing with mathemes i saw seemed to literally contradict itself.  so i don't even know what he was trying to say
• Tachyon

  2014-04-04 06:26:35

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  That is par for the course with Lacan.  Much of his writing is confusing waffle, and his mathemes are pretty much the worst of the lot.  Whatever meaning they have is inextricable from Lacan's own work, so why he felt the need to formalize them is something of a mystery.  my guess is it was just an attempt to make his work appear more rigorous than it really is.
  
  i may be doing him a disservice; psychoanalysis has never been my strong suit and i've never had much patience with Lacan.  But that's the impression i get, anyway.
  
• Odradek

  2014-04-04 10:42:54

  My dreams exceed my real life

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/health/film-about-treatment-of-autism-strongly-criticized-in-france.html?pagewanted=all
• Miss Miko Mayonegg

  2014-04-04 10:45:27 edited 2014-04-04 10:45:35

  More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
  

  ^ fuck you france