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"[[matheme]]" (''[[{{Top}}mathème]]''){{Bottom}}
==Neologism==
The term "[[mathème]]" is a neologism which [[Lacan]] derives from the word "[[mathematics]]" -- presumably by analogy with the term ''[[Claude Lévi-Strauss|mytheme]]''.<ref>''Mytheme'' is a term coined by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] to denote the basic constituents of mythological systems.</ref>
==Algebra==
The [[mathemes]] are part of [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]].
==Jacques Lacan==
Although the term [[matheme]] is not introduced by [[Lacan]] until the early 1970s, the two formulae which are most often referred to as [[matheme]]s date from 1957.
==Drive and Fantasy==
These [[algebra|formulae]], which were both created to designate points in the [[graph of desire]], are the [[matheme]] for the [[drive]], ('''$ <> D'''), and the [[matheme]] for [[fantasy]], ('''$ <> ''a''''').
Although the term ==Structure==The [[mathemestructural]] is not introduced by [[Lacan]] until the early 1970s, parallel between the two formulae which are most often referred to as [[matheme]]s date from 1957. These formulae, which were is clear; they are both created to designate points in the composed of two [[graph of desirealgebra]], are the ic [[mathemesymbol]] for s conjoined by a rhomboid (the [[drivesymbol]], ($ '''<> D)''', and the which [[mathemeLacan]] for [[fantasy]], ($ <> calls the ''apoinçon'')and enclosed by brackets.
The rhomboid [[structuralsymbolize]] parallel s a relation between the two [[matheme]]s is clear; they are both composed of two [[algebra]]ic [[symbol]]s conjoined by a rhomboid (, which includes the [[symbol]] relations of "envelopment-development-conjunction-disjunction."<ref>, which [[Lacan]] calls the ''poinçon'') and enclosed by brackets{{E}} p.280</ref>
The rhomboid ==Signification==[[symbolizeLacan]]s a relation between argues that the two [[symbolmatheme]]s, which includes are "not transcendent signifiers; they are the relations indices of "envelopment-development-conjunction-disjunctionan absolute signification."<ref>{{E}} p.280314</ref>
They are "created to allow a hundred and one different readings, a multiplicity that is admissible as long as the spoken remains caught in their algebra."<ref>{{E}} p. 313</ref>
==Psychoanalytic Theory==
[[Lacan]] argues that the [[matheme]]s are "not transcendent signifiers; they are the indices of an absolute signification."<ref>{{E}} p.314</ref>
 
They are "created to allow a hundred and one different readings, a multiplicity that is admissible as long as the spoken remains caught in their algebra."<ref>{{E}} p.313</ref>
 
They are constructed to resist any attempt to reduce them to one univocal [[signification]], and to prevent the reader from an intuitive or [[imaginary]] [[knowledge|understanding]] of [[:category:concepts|psychoanalytic concepts]]: the [[mathemes]] are not to be understood but to be used.
In this way, they constitute a formal core of [[psychoanalytic theory]] which may be transmitted integrally.
<blockquote>"One certainly doesn't know what they mean, but they are transmitted."<ref>{{S20}} p.100</ref></blockquote>
==See Also==
{{Also}}
* [[Algebra]]
* [[Drive]]
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* [[Fantasy]]
* [[Graph of desire]]
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* [[Knowledge]]
* [[Mathematics]]
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* [[Signification]]
* [[Structure]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Symbol]]
{{Also}}
==References==
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Terms]]
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