{"id":7055,"date":"2025-08-13T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoespsy.com\/publications\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:53:08","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/echoespsy.com\/en\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Iraj E. Ghoochani This essay serves as a supplementary reflection on my dissertation titled\u00a0B\u0101b\u0101 \u0100b D\u0101d: The Phenomenology of Sainthood in the Culture of Dreams in Kurdistan, with an Emphasis on the Sufis of the Q\u0101derie Brotherhood\u00a0(Esmaeilpour Ghoochani, Iraj, 2017). (URL: https:\/\/edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de\/21528\/) This work was completed at LMU M\u00fcnchen, Faculty<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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This paper deconstructs the symbolic architecture of control and liberation through an interdisciplinary lens, weaving together Islamic esotericism, art history, and psychoanalysis. Beginning with the magic squares of Ahmad al-B\u016bn\u012b\u2014understood as pre-modern algorithms for binding angels\u2014it traces their influence to Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s engraving Melencolia I. The analysis centers on two\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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This essay explores the architectural and philosophical concept of “orthogonality” through the lens of melancholia. It posits that the fundamental, perpendicular structure of pillars serves not only as a physical support but also as a diagrammatic representation of the human condition\u2014a structure simultaneously embodying strength and the profound weight of\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThe Orthogonality Between \u201cHome\u201d and \u201cHouse\u201d\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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A house shelters you from the world; a home reveals who you are within it. Let us start with etymology. There is a lot that we can learn from the etymology of \u201chouse\u201d and \u201chome\u201d, showing how these terms evolved to differentiate as well as represent both physical and emotional\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThe Paradox of Zoleikha: Near Yet Distant\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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This working paper explores Lacan’s Seminar XIII, Session 7, through the figure of Zoleikha, the wife of Potiphar in Islamic accounts. Drawing on Lacanian concepts of demand, desire, and topological structures like the torus, it examines her obsessive love for Joseph as a paradoxical shift from metonymy to metaphor. Insights\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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This is one of the first texts written for the project ‘The Point Is\u2026,’ a visual philosophical endeavor that I hope to collaborate on with Claudio Sagribi in 2025, or whenever The Point reveals some of its hidden features to us.<\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThe Wife of Potiphar: The Fractal Path of Inversion Circles\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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The story of the wife of Potiphar reflects how desire spirals within the Big Other (the symbolic order). The Big Other, often represented as “A,” structures the subject\u2019s world: She named everything after his name, Joseph. The Big Other determines what is possible and what is forbidden, operating within the\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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This essay explores how a simple grammatical slip\u2014like a misspelled “skeepdog”\u2014can act as a “faulty instruction” that reveals the hidden structure of desire and language, as theorized by Jacques Lacan. Using the mathematical metaphor of the neglected “phi prime” (\u03c6’), the shadow twin of the golden ratio, the author argues\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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The Loophole at the Origin: On x = 1\/y, Nested Tori, and the Blindness of Continuity Iraj E. Ghoochani Abstract: This essay explores the topological, psychoanalytic, and poetic implications of the reciprocal function x=1\/y. Drawing from Lacanian topology, projective geometry, and metaphorical logic, we investigate how singularity at the origin<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Before diving in, the reader is encouraged to watch Veritasium\u2019s video \u201cThe Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know the Answer\u201d (link), which clearly introduces the 100 prisoners riddle. This logical puzzle will serve as the structural foundation for the Lacanian exploration that follows.<\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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In the phenomenology of the spirit of Iranian cinema 1 Iraj E. Ghoochani Summary This article explores the idea\u00a0that if \u201cthe spirit is a bone\u201d, as Hegel suggested, then this principle can be extended to other domains. Using cinema as an example, it proposes that “Cinema is a Film,” but<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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