Lacan coins the The term '[[extimacy]]' ([[French]]:''extimitÈextimitè'') is coined by [[Jacques Lacan]] by applying combining the prefix 'ex ' (from ''exterieur, '' or 'exterior') to the French word intimitÈ ''intimitè'' ('intimacy').
The resulting This neologism, which may be rendered 'extimacy' in English, neatly expresses indicates the way manner in which psychoanalysis problematises problematizes the opposition between inside and outside, between container and containedoutsider.<ref>see S7, 139</ref>
For example, the [[real]] is just as much inside as outside, and the [[unconscious]] is not a purely interior psychic system but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] ('the unconscious is outside').
Rhe [[Other]] is "something strange to me, although it is at the heart of me."<ref>S7, 71</ref>
AgainFurthermore, the center of the [[Othersubject]] is "something strange to me, although it outside; the subject is at the heart of meex-centric."<ref>S7see E, 165, 71171</ref>
Furthermore, the centre of the subject is outside; the subject is ex-centric.<ref>see E, 165, 171</ref> The structure of [[extimacy ]] is perfectly expressed in the [[topology ]] of the TORUs [[torus]] and of the [[moebius strip]]. The concept of extimacy has been further developed by [[Jacques-Alain Miller]] in his seminar of 1985-6.
Lacan goes beyond Freud. Not a beyond Freud which leaves Freud behind; it is a beyond Freud which is nevertheless in Freud. Lacan is looking for something in Freud's work of which Freud himself was unaware. Something which we may call "extimate," as it is so very intimate that Freud himself was not aware of it. So very intimate that this intimacy is extimate. It is an internal beyond.
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