Matheme
| French: mathème |
The matheme is a concept introduced in the work of Jacques Lacan.
The "matheme" is a neologism coined by Jacques 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.
Schema L
In 1955, Lacan introduced what could be called his first matheme, the relatively simple "schema L", illustrating the imaginary function of the ego.
Schema L identifies four points in the signifying chain:
, the unconscious or the "discourse of the Other]", and then .
, the subject, which in turn results from the relation between
, the ego and
, the other.
See Also
References
- ↑ Mytheme is a term coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss to denote the basic constituents of mythological systems.
