About Bruno de Florence

Musicologist, co-curator of the Lutecium site and moderator of its discussion list. Author of Musique, sémiotique et pulsion. Also webmaster of this site.

Comments on reports of an early overlap of female biology & sexuation

January 17, 2013

These 2 presentations were made at our cartel session on 17 January 2013. Present were Julia Evans, Jo Rostron and Marcos Abel (as a guest). A) JOHN STEINBECK AND FEMALE (…)

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French context of Autism in relation to Leo Kanner’s 1943 medical formulation of Autism

June 30, 2012

The text, The French context of autism in relation to Leo Kanner’s 1943 medical formulation of autism,  is published at www.deflorence.com Available here   Presented at the London Society of the (…)

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Comments on three accounts of contemporary conditions

May 26, 2012

Presentation for a cartel session of the Symbolic Order in the 21st Century, by Bruno de Florence 1) MAN GOES TO HOSPITAL WITH A KIDNEY STONE… AND DISCOVERS HE’S A (…)

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The finger in the sand

May 16, 2012

At the 23 April 2012 Lacanian Forum’s reading group session on Lacan’s Seminar 10 (L’angoisse, 20 March 1963), I had been puzzled by the reference to “Sartre’s making a hole (…)

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Lacan and Topology

October 8, 2011

The use of Topology by Lacan has baffled many of his readers, most especially those with no background in Maths. Lacan himself did not help as what he presented was (…)

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Not If, but when

August 11, 2011

For about 18 hours on 8th August 2011, the imaginary was short-circuited and bypassed, during which the real overpowered the symbolic. Silence on the political side, everything becomes possible for (…)

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The hacker

July 9, 2011

As part of a recent cartel session on the symbolic order in the 21st century, I did a presentation commenting on the case of a hacker as portrayed in a (…)

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