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=====Background=====
The [[matheme]] is a concept introduced in the [[{{LB}}|work]] of [[Jacques Lacan]].
They are formulae designed as symbolic representations of his ideas and analyses.
They were intended to introduce some degree of scientific rigour in [[philosophy|philosophical]] and [[psychology|psychological]] [[{{LB}}|writing]], replacing the often hard to understand verbal descriptions with formulae resembling those used in the [[science|hard sciences]], and as an easy way to hold, [[memory|remember]] and rehearse some of the core ideas of both [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]]. For example: $ <> a is the [[matheme]] for [[fantasy]] for [[Lacan]]. "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. Though sometimes disparaged as a case of "physics envy" or accused of introducing false rigor into a discpline that is more literary theory than hard science, there is also something of a sense of humor in Lacan's mathemes. =====See Also=====
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* [[Algebra]]
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