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==Jacques Lacan==
==Formalization==
The various "[[schemata]]" that begin to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s are all attempts to [[formalize]] by means of [[diagrams]] certain aspects of [[psychoanalytic theory]].
The [[schemata]] all consist of a [[number]] of points connected by a number of vectors.
==Algebra==Each point in a [[schema L (schÈma L) The various 'schemata' that begin to appear in]] is designated by one of the [[symbol]]s of [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], while the vectors how the [[structure|structural relations]] between these [[symbol]]s.
==Topology==The [[schemata]] can be seen as [[Lacan]]'s work in first incursion into the 1950s are all attempts to formalise by means field of diagrams[[topology]].
Two years later, [[Lacan]] replaces this version of the [[schema]] with a newer, "simplified [[form]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 548; {{E}} p. 193</ref>
==Readings==
Although [[schema L]] allows many possible readings, the main point of the [[schema]] is to demonstrate that the [[symbolic]] relation (between the [[Other]] and the [[subject]]) is always blocked to a certain extent by the [[imaginary]] axis (between the [[ego]] and the [[specular image]]).
Because it has to [[pass]] through the [[imaginary]] "wall of [[language]]," the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]] reaches the [[subject]] in an interrupted and [[inversion|inverted form]]. (see [[communication]])
The [[schema]] thus illustrates the opposition between the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]] which is fundamental to [[Lacan]]'s conception of [[psychoanalysis]].
==Treatment==
This is of [[practical]] importance in the [[treatment]], since the [[analyst]] must usually intervene in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] rather than in the [[imaginary]].
However, unlike [[schema L]], which serves as a constant point of reference for [[Lacan]] in the period 1954-7, each of these [[schemata]] only appears once in [[Lacan]]'s work.
By the [[time]] the last of these [[schemata]] (the [[schemata]] of [[Sade]]) appear, in 1962, the [[schemata]] have already ceased to play an important part in [[Lacan]]'s [[discourse]], although it can be argued that they lay the groundwork for [[Lacan]]'s more rigorous [[topological]] work in the 1970s.
==See Also==
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* [[Algebra]]
* [[Communication]]
* [[Discourse]]
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* [[Ego]]
* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Intersubjectivity]]
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* [[Matheme]]
* [[Other]]
* [[Specular image]]
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* [[Structure]]
* [[Subject]]
* [[Symbol]]
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* [[Topology]]
* [[Treatment]]
* [[Unconscious]]
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== References ==
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