Torus
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[edit] Jacques Lacan
The torus is one of the figures that Lacan analyzes in his study of topology.
[edit] Torus
In its simplest form, it is a ring, a three-dimensional object formed by taking a cylinder and joining the two ends together.
[edit] Topology
Lacan's first reference to the torus dates from 1953,[1]
but it is not until his work on topology in the 1970s that it begins to figure prominently in his work.
[edit] Subject
The topology of the torus illustrates certain features of the structure of the subject:
One important feature of the torus is that its center of gravity falls outside its volume, just as the centre of the subject is outside himself; he is decentred, ex-centric.
[edit] Extimacy
Another property of the torus is that "its peripheral exteriority and its central exteriority constitute only one single region."[2]
This illustrates the way that psychoanalysis problematises the distinction between "inside" and "outside". (see extimacy).
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p. 105
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p. 105
