Lacan's "True Hole": a Speculative Application to Perspective and the L-Schema

This short study video proposes that Lacan's "true hole," a Brunnian braid of the Borromeo knot presented in Seminar XXIII, The Sinthome, opens up a new "perspectival" function within the L-Schema. This is entirely speculative, so apologies in advance to doctrinaire colleagues who regard the L-schema in strictly traditional ways. I tried to follow Bruce Fink's advice about what happens in Analysis at the level of the signifier and timing. The idea of an "atomization" of the Analysand's free association made sense, in that the Imaginary, within the "cone of vision," needed to be an aerosol, where every point is equidistant from every other point. This is possible in a multidimensional space of n-1 dimensions, but the reverse perspective can be produced only by squeezing this aerosol into a more structured state. But, the effects of reversed perspective have been described in a competent way by Pavel Florensky, and I wish to give him credit. I also wish to bring forward the role of dilation and cathesis in Lacan's axonometric representations of Desargue-style accounts of ocular (as opposed to optical) perception, involving a "perspective hinge." For the text of the narration, visit https://boundarylanguage.psu.edu/thes....