Lacan ┼ Architecture is a collection of ten essays by authors with long histories of engaging psychoanalysis in their architectural research. Authors of this collection will treat the spaces of Lacanian subjectivity from a variety of perspectives, in nine in-depth essays ranging from 8000 words to 12,000 words. Photos and diagrams will, economically but strategically, support the arguments of the authors in the spirit of Lacan’s own energetic visual imagination.
AUTHORS: You may now read the PRESENTATION VERSION of the proposal. The deadline for making corrections and suggestions has passed. Download the text by printing, then “save as PDF,” or use Control-Click to get a menu listing save options. John Hendrix, Francesco Proto, and Don Kunze have gone over the text. Not all editing suggestions were incorporated. This edition is formatted to show authors names in the footer of chapter proposals, and to re-set footnote numbers for each. Every effort was made to be consistent with the uses of dashes and hyphens, parentethical marks, and double/single curly quotes. Both British and US/Canadian spellings were tolerated. The editors plan to send the electronic version to the series editors on Monday, paper copy to follow. Pending their review, formal application will be made to Palgrave Macmillan.
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Review Protocol
Editors John Hendrix and Francesco Proto will also circulate PDFs of the entire proposal document. Authors are responsible for final edits of their own texts but are invited to review the whole document. Chicago style for bibliographic references, curly double-quotes for upper level quotes, space-M-dash-space for dash separators, N-dashes between numerals (dates, pages), hyphens for dependent composites and names (Briggs-Stratton). First paragraph flush, subsequent paragraphs .25 inches.
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Addendum: In the course of reviewing materials about Lacan’s visualization and employment of projective geometry, evidence of multiple instances of misinformation provoked this Topology Check-List, which relocates the origin of projective geometry in the theorems of Pappus of Alexandria, the revivals of those theorems by Girard Desargues and Blaise Pascal, and the re-revival of Desargues’ work in the 19c. by the likes of Möbius, Plücker, Gauss, Riemann, and others. It is more accurate to call Euclidean geometry “non-projective” than it is to call topology “non-Euclidean.” Euler’s solution of the Königsburg Bridge Problem is, definitively not the origin of topology but, rather, graph theory. Euler circles are not the same as Venn diagrams. Projective geometry is about 2-dimensional form whose visible representations involve immersion into 3-space, thus adding a dimension that, for the projective figure, does not exist. The Thesean labyrinth, a meander rather than a maze, does not obviate the possibility of getting lost, as one author asserts in Psychoanalysis: Topological Perspectives (33). Nor is the hole of the middle of the torus the a of demand, as another author claims (172), but rather the void of desire, as Lacan clearly states in Seminar IX, Identification.