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I am studying German literature at Munic University. At present I am arranging my dissertation, which is supported by Professor Bernd Scheffer (media theorist). I am working on the Theme :

The medial dependence of the Lacan-discussion. An investigation on the New Media.

The dissertation especially throws a light on the Lacanian discussion in the internet. Moreover I’m going to compare Lacan in the net with Lacan in the print-media. Have you ever been occupied with a similar topic concerning Lacan? During my search in the net I also visited your sites, and they really impressed me a lot. You would open me new horizons and would very much ease my search, if you could help me with the following questions:

Which sites in the internet do you recommend because of a high standard in layout and discussion-points?
Do you see any possibilities explaining Lacan in the net with Lacanian theory?
How do you value the quality of the Lacan-presentations in the net and are there any advantages within a net-discussion in contrast to the discussion in printmedia?

Probably you can also recommend a Lacan-expert in the net, who overlooks the net-discussion very well? I am glad, if you have time and pleasure to answer my questions. Thank you very much for the remarkable impulses you gave me!

Yours


Dear...

Your message is an interesting challenge. I shall try to answer in fact - using the characteristic of the Internet which is to make connections. In this case I'll connect our correspondence to the www.lacan.com forum. You ask me which Web site I would recommend - 'lacan.com' is one I like, though its readers never showed much interest for communicating with me. It is thus a good example of what I experience with the Internet. There are many good Lacanian web sites, but I am not sure if they add to usual printed matter.

When I was prophesizing in Lyon/France about the Internet Era and continuing Freud's work on Akhnaton, I was hatred by my colleagues (trust me, I'm a Dr.). Although I believe that both topics are inter-related, I can imagine that the Internet thing alone was enough to trigger their 'abjection'. I can explain this after noticing that Lacan experienced personal difficulties with a certain degree in the Letter function.
As I have shown with Freud, Velikovsky, Osman, there is an automatic phenomenon which compels a psychoanalyst to counteract against its primal intuition. It happened with Lacan who initiated a brilliant theory of a factor, only later coined by his analysand Verdiglione as 'Semblant'. Lacan himself would have not been able to name what he discovered, and later he developed a pathology which was denying it.
Following some classic law of sociology, after this process, Lacan's disciples promoted this deny. This is the first reason why it is critical to say anything about Lacan-discussion in the internet; a Lacan-discussion is not a Lacan-discussion.

The second reason goes more in depth, for the theory of the Semblant is specifically related to the internet aspect of your question. The Semblant - that can be translated as 'likeness' - is the interface between the Letter function and the Code. Lacan used to locate it as an 'awl', it is also called 'meme' in other academies. It bridges the making of clones (industry of Code) following the names (Letter function). If something manifests the Code, the Semblant typically introduces to the 'body'. Lacan was able to pronounce the algebra of the latter when he indicated it as (a) but he denied its realization.

There is a picturesque example of this refusal when he commented Oedipus at Colonus to his students that had never read the text for most of them. Lacan could then report the description of a putrefaction when Sophocle talked in reality about a luminous sublimation. Since Lacanians have then promote his denial, it is the second reason why there have not much relevant to say in the Internet.
The Internet is the definite completion of a process which will result in the building of a body - or a corpus of bodies. This does not show yet, because the public is not encouraged to understand how the genetic engineering of the ecosystem will be conducted by Artificial Intelligence - and that A.I. is much less supported by some Big Blue computer than by its millions-of-people brain software, as the Internet reveals it. The hub of this Industry of the Code is the Semblant or 'likeness' whose place is in the Internet.
Lacan opened the door to this and, the next moment he shut if off. His insight can be retrieved only in the blink that preceeds the lacanian institution and, nowadays, in what they don't understand.

This is why I believe that Lacanians will continue to do better in printed matter - as it is indicated in the site that I like (lacan.com), when it emphases on the ink instead of the corporated.

I am afraid I did not answered all your questions, yet I hope that you will find some satisfaction in reading what I tried to make coherent through my experience.
I shall be very glad to be able to read your work in progress and your dissertation,

Your...



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