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The [[structure]] of [[extimacy]] is perfectly expressed in the [[topology]] of the [[torus]] and of the [[moebius strip]]. | The [[structure]] of [[extimacy]] is perfectly expressed in the [[topology]] of the [[torus]] and of the [[moebius strip]]. | ||
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* [[Inside]] | * [[Inside]] | ||
* [[Moebius strip]] | * [[Moebius strip]] | ||
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* [[Outside]] | * [[Outside]] | ||
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* [[Unconscious]] | * [[Unconscious]] | ||
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* [[Structure]] | * [[Structure]] | ||
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* [[Torus]] | * [[Torus]] | ||
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==References== | ==References== |
Revision as of 13:04, 24 August 2006
French: extimité |
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