All psychoanalysis enthusiasts, please hear this brilliant lecture by Dr. Anup Dhar on the Freud-Bose Dialogue which he recasts as a transcultural dialectical interplay involving questions like the psychic life of power, the relation between crypt and hegemony, aboriginalization of psychoanalysis, (un-)critical cultural relativism, the status of the universal, the cultural and the provincial, the negotiation of the interior and the exterior and so on.
The lecture is a treat for anyone interested in psychoanalysis in the Indian context, its history and its connections with the political. And it speaks volumes of Anupda's precision and lucidity as a thinker and speaker. Hearing him is like reading Bruce Fink.
Not only does Anupda frame an interpretive condition for approaching the psychoanalytic dyad of Freud and Bose but he also reads this dialectical dialogue by marking the logic of reverse causality in relation to repression as hypothesis and repression as an explained concept in the two thinkers.
For me, the highlight was the brief excursus through sexuation towards the end where he insightfully reflected on sexutation as the unconscious of the sex-gender system and an insecurely sexed hauntology of the body in inter-subjective terms.
While I would love to hear/read more on this, perhaps a full paper on sexuation from Anupda, there is a Lacanian question which occurs to me at this point and it is as follows:
How does one see this problematically sexuated dyad in terms of the triadic logic of the Real which in its Lacanian insistence will question and split the dyad?
Differently put, the question could also be this:
If the dyad is produced by the event of sexuation as an encounter with the Other which sexes desire (not in any stable way of course), what's the impact of sexual non-rapport on this dyad?
The fact that sexuality is not distributed across the dyad in the form of a relation but as an absence of relation with the Relation (xRY) itself becoming a third term (the third ring that constructs the Borromean knot) would problematise the dyadic logic by breaking the dyad itself. The symptom (or the 'sinthome') is a further construction on the Real as the third. I am wondering how the rupture of the Imaginary dyad with the Real and the symptom that comes from the Real would have effects on sexuation. I am really looking forward to knowing more about Anupda's thoughts on sexuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbGf3lEX-A&index=11&list=WL
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