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"Matheme", for Lacan, was not simply the imitation of science by philosophy, but the ideal of a perfect means for the integral transmission of knowledge. Natural language, with its constant "metonymic slide", fails here, where mathematics succeeds. Contemporary philosopher [[Alain Badiou]] identifies "matheme" with the scientific procedure.
==def==In Greek, <i>mathêma</i> means "that which is taught." Following the same path that led Freud to the discovery of slips and jokes, Lacan forged connections between the fields of spoken discourse and logical inscription. In 1955, he introduced what could be called his first matheme, schema L.</p><p>The main Lacanian mathemes in order of their appearance are:</p><ol><li><i>Schema L</i> (1955), which identifies four points in the signifying chain: first, the unconscious, or the discourse of the Other (A), and then the subject (S), which in turn...</li>
== External links ==
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~acp/fonts/readthis.htm Lacanian Matheme Fonts] provided by the [[Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis]]
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