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{{Topp}}noeud borroméen{{Bottom}} [[Image:Borromean.Knot.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The fundamental structure in Lacanian psychoanalysis is a tripartite confluence of what Borromean knot]] ==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan called ]] used the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic orders.1 I will define each of these in turn shortly, but first it is important to conceive [[concept]] or [[image]] of their interrelationship as "the fundamental classification system around which all [Lacan’s[borromean knot|knot] theorising turns" (Evans 132). The intersection of the RSI constitutes the whole of the mental life of humans, whether in a cumulative way or in the various effects it produces – "together they cover the whole field of psychoanalysis" (Evans 132)] quite frequently. Each of the orders not only constitutes a particular aspect of the mental life of the mature human, but also corresponds roughly References to stages [[knot]]s can be found in the development [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of the infant human Jacques Lacan|work]] as it approaches maturity. Nonetheless, while it is tempting to think of the orders early as stages through which the individual moves1950s, we must resist this temptation and retain their purity as orders or registers in which, through which, and by which the individual <ref> {{E}} p. 281</ref> but it is determined: "The symbolic, the imaginary and the real are not mental forces, personifiable on the model-builder’s inner stage, but orders each of which serves to position until the individual within a force-field ealy 1970s that traverses him" (Bowie 91). This insistence on the existence of RSI as orders or forces that traverse the individual allows us [[Lacan]] begins to comprehend that though together they comprise a structure, that structure is far examine [[knot]]s from static. Rather, the various orders contained in the RSI configuration constantly act on each other, defining each other and themselves in contradistinction to one another. They are simultaneously mutually interdependent for point of view of their definition and utterly incommensurable[[topology|topological properties]]. "The symbolic, In the imaginary and the real pressurize each other continuously and have their shortmid-term truces, but they do not allow any embracing programme for synthesis 1970s he tried to emerge inside or outside theorize the analytic encounter. The three orders together comprise a complex topological space in which the characteristic disorderly motions interrelation of the human mind can be plotted" (Bowie 98-99). Like a perpetually stymied dialectic[[Symbolic]], the three orders define themselves [[Imaginary]] and the [[Real]] in purely negative relationships to each other yet never come to a point [[terms]] of Aufhebung at which each is subsumed by the others to produce a clear, pure, and non-pathological synthesis. The interaction [[topology]] of these three orders produces the analysable human subject even as their encroachment upon each other produces a variety of more or less serious disruptions in that subject[[borromean knot|knots]].
==Knot==
In this late period of his [[work]], one kind of [[knot]] comes to interest [[Lacan]] more than any [[other]]: the [[Borromean knot]]. The [[Borromean knot]] -- shown to the [[right]] -- so called because the [[List of Figures|figure]] is found on the coat of arms of the Borromeo [[family]], is a group of [[three]] rings which are linked in such a way that if any one of [[them]] is severed, all three become separated.<ref>{{S20}} p. 112</ref>
==Three Orders==
[[Lacan]] first takes up the [[Borromean knot]] in the [[seminar]] of 1972-3, but his most detailed [[discussion]] of the [[knot]] comes in the [[seminar]] of 1974-5. It is in this [[seminar]] that [[Lacan]] uses the [[Borromean knot]] as, among other things, a way of illustrating the interdependence of the [[order|three order]]s of the [[real]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]], as a way of exploring what it is that these [[order|three order]]s have in common. Each ring represents one of the [[order|three order]]s, and thus certain elements can be located at intersections of these rings. (In his view these [[orders]] are tied together in the form of a "Borromean knot". The "Borromean knot" is a linkage of three "string rings" in such a way that no two rings intersect. The structure of the knot is such that the cutting of any one ring will liberate all of the [[others]]. [[Lacan]] used the [[theory]] of knots to stress the relations which [[bind]] or link the [[Imaginary]], [[Symbolic]] and [[Real]], and the [[subject]] to each, in a way which avoids any [[notion]] of hierarchy, or any priority of any one of the three terms.)
==See Also==
{{See}}* ''[[Extimacy]]''* [[Imaginary]]||* [[torusMoebius strip]]* [[topologyOrder]]||* [[extimacyPsychosis]]* [[subjectReal]]||* ''[[cross-capSinthome]]''* [[knotStructure]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbolic]]||* [[Torus]]* [[Topology]]{{Also}}
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