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===Interdependence===order (''ordre'')  [[Jacques Lacan]] first develops Although the three '[[order]]s' (or '[[register]]s') in 1953. The [[Imaginary]], the [[Symbolic]] and the [[Real]] thus comprise a basic classification system (around which all [[Lacan]]'s theorising turns) which allows important distinctions to be drawn between concepts which, according to [[Lacan]], had previously been confused in [[psychoanalytic theory]].  For example [[Lacan]] argues that much misunderstanding has arisen in [[psychoanalytic theory]] due to a failure to distinguish between the [[Imaginary]] father, the [[Symbolic]] father and the [[Real]] father.  Thus [[Lacan]] claims that his tripartite classification system has shed invaluable light on [[Freud]]'s [[work]]:  <blockquote>"Without these three systems to guide ourselves by, it would be impossible to understand anything of the Freudian technique and experience."<ref>{{Sl}} p.73</ref> The [[Imaginary]], the [[Symbolic]] and the [[Realorders]] are profoundly heterogeneous, each referring to quite distinct aspects of [[psychoanalytic]] [[experience]].  It is therefore difficult to see what they have in common, and yet, the fact that [[Lacan]] refers to all three as '[[order]]s' implies that they share some common property.  [[Lacan]] explores this question of what the three [[order]]s have in common must be defined by means of reference to the [[topology]] of the [[Borromean knot]] in his 1974-5 [[seminar]], [[RSIother]]two.  They are not mental forces like the three [[agency|agencies]] in [[Freud]]'s The [[structural model]].  However, they are primarily concerned with mental functioning, and together they cover the whole field of [[psychoanalysis]]. Although the three orders are profoundly heterogeneous, each order must be defined by reference to the other two.  The structural interdependence of the three [[order]]s is illustrated by the [[Borromean Knotknot]], in which the severing of any one of the three rings causes the other two to become separated also.<!-- =====More=====It should also be noted that the "orders" are not [[stable]] concepts; at each moment each may be implicated in the redefinition of the [[others]].-->

* [[Borromean knotTopology]]{{Also}}