Because latency is the stuff of metaphor, dreaming, and the uncanny, it shows us how to connect psychoanalysis to popular culture and the arts. Looking at Jacques Lacan's (complicated!) matheme for the metaphor reveals it to be a function of paralysis, akin to the idempotency of the dream (to keep the dreamer dreaming). Latency uses projective geometry ("non-Euclidean") to exploit the phantasmagoria function of dreaming for popular culture applications: folklore, ritual, the arts, architecture. Latency's other name is "anamorphosis." This video was prepared to present at the annual meetings of The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 2020. A text of the narrative can be found at htpp://art3idea.psu.edu/locus/idempotency2.pdf. For more information, see the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Architecture, [ Ссылка ].
