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The [[torus]] ([[French]]: ''tore'') is one of the [[:category:figures|figures]] that [[Lacan]] analyses in his study of [[topology]].
In its simplest form, it is a ring, a three-dimensional object formed by taking a cylinder and joining the two ends together.
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[[Lacan]]'s first reference to the [[torus]] dates from 1953,<ref>E, 105</ref> but it is not until his work on [[topology]] in the 1970s that it begins to figure prominently in his work.
The [[topology]] of the [[torus]] illustrates certain features of the [[structure]] of the [[subject]]:
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One important feature of the [[torus]] is that its centre of gravity falls outside its volume, just as the centre of the [[subject]] is outside himself; he is [[decentred]], excentric.
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Another property of the [[torus]] is that "its peripheral exteriority and its central exteriority constitute only one single region."<ref>E, 105</ref>
This illustrates the way that [[psychoanalysis]] problematises the distinction between 'inside' and 'outside.' (see [[extimacy]]).
===misc===
6. Lacan exemplifies the intrication of demand and desire with two intertwined toruses in Seminar IX, Identification, where a circle drawn around the tube-like surface of one torus (the circle of demand) coincides with the smallest circle around the central void in the other (the circle of desire).
==See Also==
* [[borromean knot]]
* [[topology]]
* [[extimacy]]
* [[subject]]
* [[cross-cap]]
* [[knot]]
[[Category:Topology]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Figures]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
The [[torus]] ([[French]]: ''tore'') is one of the [[:category:figures|figures]] that [[Lacan]] analyses in his study of [[topology]].
In its simplest form, it is a ring, a three-dimensional object formed by taking a cylinder and joining the two ends together.
--
[[Lacan]]'s first reference to the [[torus]] dates from 1953,<ref>E, 105</ref> but it is not until his work on [[topology]] in the 1970s that it begins to figure prominently in his work.
The [[topology]] of the [[torus]] illustrates certain features of the [[structure]] of the [[subject]]:
--
One important feature of the [[torus]] is that its centre of gravity falls outside its volume, just as the centre of the [[subject]] is outside himself; he is [[decentred]], excentric.
----
Another property of the [[torus]] is that "its peripheral exteriority and its central exteriority constitute only one single region."<ref>E, 105</ref>
This illustrates the way that [[psychoanalysis]] problematises the distinction between 'inside' and 'outside.' (see [[extimacy]]).
===misc===
6. Lacan exemplifies the intrication of demand and desire with two intertwined toruses in Seminar IX, Identification, where a circle drawn around the tube-like surface of one torus (the circle of demand) coincides with the smallest circle around the central void in the other (the circle of desire).
==See Also==
* [[borromean knot]]
* [[topology]]
* [[extimacy]]
* [[subject]]
* [[cross-cap]]
* [[knot]]
[[Category:Topology]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Figures]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
