Lyon — Engaging in the Psychoanalytic Act

Symposium and reading seminars in Lyon on the thinking-in-motion on which the psychoanalytic act depends, topological experimentation of the tetrahedron, and the function of the vocal object a.

City / Hub

Lyon

Date(s)

October 10–12, 2025

Venue & Format

Lyon — Symposium & Reading Seminars (October 10–12, 2025 sessions)

ARGUMENT & PRESENTATION OF THE ENCOUNTER Lyon · October 10–12, 2025

The Lyon encounters of October 10, 11, and 12, 2025 brought together reading seminars and study days around engaging in the psychoanalytic act. Rather than freezing the cure onto a substantial finality (“where” an analysis leads), the works emphasized the verb “to lead” and the thinking-in-motion inherent to the unconscious.

Drawing on the “three or four types of question” formulated by Christian Fierens and the topological experimentation of the tetrahedron of the act, these sessions investigated alienation, not-all truth, and the object a in its vocal form of absolute nothingness.

library_books PUBLISHED TEXTS & INTERVENTIONS FROM THIS ENCOUNTER (2)

Texte #01 Freddy Guilloteau · Lyon, October 10, 2025

3D · cross-cap

The RealThe Symbolic

Where Does an Analysis Lead?

Thinking Psychosis to Think the Thinking-in-Motion on Which the Psychoanalytic Act Depends

change_history Le Penser en mouvement / Cross-cap

Drawing on Christian Fierens’s “Negation and Repression”, this text shifts the emphasis from the “where” (the finality of the cure) to the verb “to lead”: the movement of enunciation and thinking-in-motion on which the psychoanalytic act depends.

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Texte #05 Freddy Guilloteau · Lyon, October 11–12, 2025

3D · torus-knot

The RealThe Symbolic

Three or Four Types of Thesis

Engaging in the Psychoanalytic Act

change_history Tétraèdre de l'Acte & Objet a vocal

A discussion of the “three or four types of question” formulated by Christian Fierens on the psychoanalytic act: topological experimentation of the tetrahedron, function of the vocal object a, and ejection at the end of analysis.

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