Matheme

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French: mathème


Background

The "matheme" is a neologism coined by Lacan in the early 1970s.


Formed by derivation from "mathematics" and by analogy with phoneme and Lévi-Strauss's mytheme,[1] the term is an equivalent to "mathematical sign". It is not used in conventional mathematics, but is part of Lacan's algebra.







See Also
References
  1. ↑ Mytheme is a term coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss to denote the basic constituents of mythological systems.


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