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This is to be understood as demonstrating that the [[signifier]] is above the [[signified]], and that the two are separated by a [[bar]] that [[resistance|resists]] [[signification]] and forces the [[signfier]] to [[slip|slide]] endlessly.<ref>{{L}} "[[The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud|L'instance de la lettre dans l'inconscient ou la raison depuis Freud]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966: 493-528 ["[[The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud|The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud]]." Trans. [[Alan Sheridan]] ''[[Écrits: A Selection]]''. London: Tavistock, 1977; New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977: 146-78].</ref>

The graphs and schemata gradually become more complex, and are eventually replaced by an "[[algebra]]" of "little letters" or [[matheme]]s in which, for instance, "P" is the [[symbolic]] [[fahter]], and "M" the [[symbolic]] [[mother]].

The function of the [[formalization]] that results in the emergence of the [[amtheme]] is said by [[Lacan]] to be the integral transmission of his teachings on [[psychoanalysis]].<BR>{{S20}}

These [[algebra|formulae]], which were both created to designate points in the [[graph of desire]], are the [[matheme]] for the [[drive]], ('''$ <> D'''), and the [[matheme]] for [[fantasy]], ('''$ <> ''a''''').

The [[structural]] parallel between the two [[matheme]]s is clear; they are both composed of two [[algebra]]ic [[symbol]]s conjoined by a rhomboid (the [[symbol]] '''<>''', which [[Lacan]] calls the ''poinçon'') and enclosed by brackets.

The rhomboid [[symbolize]]s a relation between the two [[symbol]]s, which includes the relations of "envelopment-development-conjunction-disjunction."<ref>{{E}} p.280</ref>

[[Lacan]] argues that the [[matheme]]s are "not transcendent signifiers; they are the indices of an absolute signification."<ref>{{E}} p. 314</ref>

"[[matheme]]" (''[[mathème]]'')

The [[matheme]]s are part of [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]].

Although the term [[matheme]] is not introduced by [[Lacan]] until the early 1970s, the two formulae which are most often referred to as [[matheme]]s date from 1957.

The rhomboid symbolizes a relation between the two symbols, which includes the relations of "envelopment-development-conjunction-disjunction."<ref>{{E}} p.280</ref>

[[Lacan]] argues that the [[matheme]]s are "not transcendent signifiers; they are the indices of an absolute signification."<ref>{{E}} p.314</ref>

The '''[[matheme]]''' is a concept introduced by [[France|French]] [[psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]].