Form Seminar 6
A group of Lacanian/architectural scholars have teamed up to begin an informal seminar on Jacques Lacan, Ernst Cassirer, and other thinkers who have contributed to the idea of “signifierness” (Freud’s Vorstellungs-Repräsentanz). Lacan’s interests include mi-dire (“half-speech”) and, following Freud’s dream theories, the rebus. Lacan’s own aural and written presentation style has also been compared to the rebus on account of its cryptic and inconclusive qualities. Ernst Cassirer, a member of the Warburg circle in Hamburg, created the concept of Symbolic Form, an active metaphoric structuring of cultural worlds around alternative uses of language, visual forms, and temporal practices. The seminar invites others interested in the problem of signifierness to join in group events and exchange ideas informally.
A group of Lacanian/architectural scholars have teamed up to begin an informal seminar on Jacques Lacan, Ernst Cassirer, and other thinkers who have contributed to the idea of “signifierness” (Freud’s Vorstellungs-Repräsentanz). Lacan’s interests include mi-dire (“half-speech”) and, following Freud’s dream theories, the rebus. Lacan’s own aural and written presentation style has also been compared to the rebus on account of its cryptic and inconclusive qualities. Ernst Cassirer, a member of the Warburg circle in Hamburg, created the concept of Symbolic Form, an active metaphoric structuring of cultural worlds around alternative uses of language, visual forms, and temporal practices. The seminar invites others interested in the problem of signifierness to join in group events and exchange ideas informally.