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Reading L’Étourdit. Second Turn. Chapter 3: Sense and Structure

Christian Fierens

Issue 49 — Spring 2012

23–50

We forsake meaning in order to advance into sense. Castration no longer has the Freudian meaning but the sense which aims at the cut. The teachable starts not just from number but from the saying of number. Structure is topology and Kant’s transcendental dialectic corresponds to spherical topology. Interpretation is the cut that makes the structure evident, and love must end up as hate for there to be a saying.…

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