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The [[unconscious]] is not a purely [[inside|interior]] [[psychic]] [[system]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] -- "the unconscious is outside". | The [[unconscious]] is not a purely [[inside|interior]] [[psychic]] [[system]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] -- "the unconscious is outside". | ||
+ | [[Image:Lacan-mobeiusstrip.jpg|thumb|right|[[Moebius Strip]]]] | ||
+ | [[Image:lacan-torus.jpg|thumb|right|[[Torus]]]] | ||
=====Subject as Ex-centric===== | =====Subject as Ex-centric===== | ||
Again, the [[Other]] is "something strange to me, although it is at the heart of me."<ref>{{S7}} p.71</ref> | Again, the [[Other]] is "something strange to me, although it is at the heart of me."<ref>{{S7}} p.71</ref> | ||
Furthermore, the center of the [[subject]] is [[outside]]; the [[subject]] is [[existence|ex-centric]].<ref>{{E}} p.165, 171</ref> | Furthermore, the center of the [[subject]] is [[outside]]; the [[subject]] is [[existence|ex-centric]].<ref>{{E}} p.165, 171</ref> | ||
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=====Topological Structure of Extimacy===== | =====Topological Structure of Extimacy===== |
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Jacques Lacan
Translation
Lacan coins the term extimité by applying the prefix ex -- from exterieur, "exterior" -- to the Freud word intimité -- "intimacy".
"Inside" and "Outside"
The resulting neologism, which may be rendered "extimacy in English, neatly expresses the way in which psychoanalysis problematizes the opposition between "inside" and "outside"[1]
Examples
For example, the real is just as much inside as outside.
The unconscious is not a purely interior psychic system but an intersubjective structure -- "the unconscious is outside".
Subject as Ex-centric
Again, the Other is "something strange to me, although it is at the heart of me."[2]
Furthermore, the center of the subject is outside; the subject is ex-centric.[3]
Topological Structure of Extimacy
The structure of extimacy is perfectly expressed in the topology of the torus and of the moebius strip.
See Also
References
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book VII. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60. Trans. Dennis Porter. London: Routledge, 1992. p.139
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book VII. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60. Trans. Dennis Porter. London: Routledge, 1992. p.71
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p.165, 171