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[[mathematics]] (''[[mathématiques]]'')
However, this use of [[mathematics]] is not an attempt to produce a [[metalanguage]], since "no metalanguage can be spoken."<ref> {{E}} p.311</ref>
<blockquote>"The root of the difficulty is that you can only introduce symols, mathematical or otherwise, by using everyday language, since you have, after all, to explain what you are going to do with them."<ref>{{S1}} p.2</ref></blockquote>
Thus [[Lacan]]'s use of [[mathematics]] is not an attempt to escape from the ambiguity of [[language]], but, on the contrary, to produce a way of formalizing [[psychoanalysis]] which produces multiple effects of sense without being reducible to a univocal signification.
Also, by using mathematics Lacan attempts to prevent all attempts at imaginary intuitive understanding of [[psychoanalysis]].
