extimacy (extimitÈ) {{Top}}extimité{{Bottom}} ==Jacques Lacan=====Translation===[[Lacan ]] coins the term extimitÈ ''[[extimité]]'' by applying the prefix ''ex ('' -- from ''exterieur'', '"exterior') " -- to the French [[Freud]] [[word intimitÈ (]] ''intimité''-- "intimacy')". ==="Inside" and "Outside"===The resulting neologism, which may be rendered '"[[extimacy' ]] in [[English]], neatly expresses the way in which [[psychoanalysis problematises ]] problematizes the opposition between "[[inside ]]" and "[[outside, between container and contained (see ]]"<ref>{{S7, }} p. 139)</ref> ===Examples===[[Image:Lacan-mobeiusstrip. jpg|thumb|right|[[Moebius Strip]]]]For example, the [[real ]] is just as much [[inside ]] as [[outside, and the ]]. The [[unconscious ]] is not a purely [[inside|interior ]] [[psychic ]] [[system ]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective ]] [[structure (']] -- "the unconscious is outside')". ===Subject as Ex-centric===Again, the [[Other ]] is '"something strange to me, although it is at the heart of me' (."<ref>{{S7, }} p. 71). </ref> Furthermore, the centre center of the [[subject ]] is [[outside]]; the [[subject ]] is [[existence|ex-centric (see ]].<ref>{{E, }} p.165, 171). </ref> ===Topological Structure of Extimacy===The [[structure ]] of [[extimacy ]] is perfectly expressed in the [[topology ]] of the TORUs [[torus]] and of the MOEBIUS STRIP[[moebius strip]].The concept of extimacy has been further developed by Jacques==See Also=={{See}}* [[Inside]]* [[Moebius strip]]||* [[Other]]* [[Outside]]||* [[Unconscious]]* [[Real]]||* [[Structure]]* [[Subject]]||* [[Topology]]* [[Torus]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-Alain Miller in his seminar of 1985size:11px" class="references-6 (see the summary of this seminar and other related articles in Bracher et al., 1994).small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Unconscious]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:Real]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC__
