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The term '[[extimacy]]' ([[French]]: ''[[extimitè]]'') was coined by [[Jacques Lacan]] by combining the prefix 'ex' (from ''exterieur'' or 'exterior') to the [[French]] word ''intimitè'' ('intimacy').
This neologism indicates the manner in which [[psychoanalysis]] problematizes the opposition between [[inside]] and [[outside]].<ref>{{S7}} p.139</ref>
== Examples ==
For example, the [[real]] is just as much [[inside]] as [[outside]].
The [[unconscious]] is not a purely interior [[psychic]] [[system]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] ('the unconscious is outside').
The [[Other]] is "something strange to me, although it is at the heart of me."<ref>{{S7}} p.71</ref>
The center of the [[subject]] is [[outside]]; the [[subject]] is ex-centric.<ref>{{E}} p.165, 171</ref>
The [[structure]] of [[extimacy]] is perfectly expressed in the [[topology]] of the [[torus]] and of the [[moebius strip]].
== Another Example ==
Lacan goes beyond Freud.
Not a beyond Freud which leaves Freud behind; it is a beyond Freud which is nevertheless in Freud.
Lacan is looking for something in Freud's work of which Freud himself was unaware.
Something which we may call "extimate," as it is so very intimate that Freud himself was not aware of it.
So very intimate that this intimacy is extimate.
It is an internal beyond.
== See Also==
* [[Inside]]
* [[Outside]]
* [[Unconscious]]
* [[Structure]]
* [[Torus]]
* [[Moebius strip]]
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Symbolic]]
[[Category:Real]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
This neologism indicates the manner in which [[psychoanalysis]] problematizes the opposition between [[inside]] and [[outside]].<ref>{{S7}} p.139</ref>
== Examples ==
For example, the [[real]] is just as much [[inside]] as [[outside]].
The [[unconscious]] is not a purely interior [[psychic]] [[system]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] ('the unconscious is outside').
The [[Other]] is "something strange to me, although it is at the heart of me."<ref>{{S7}} p.71</ref>
The center of the [[subject]] is [[outside]]; the [[subject]] is ex-centric.<ref>{{E}} p.165, 171</ref>
The [[structure]] of [[extimacy]] is perfectly expressed in the [[topology]] of the [[torus]] and of the [[moebius strip]].
== Another Example ==
Lacan goes beyond Freud.
Not a beyond Freud which leaves Freud behind; it is a beyond Freud which is nevertheless in Freud.
Lacan is looking for something in Freud's work of which Freud himself was unaware.
Something which we may call "extimate," as it is so very intimate that Freud himself was not aware of it.
So very intimate that this intimacy is extimate.
It is an internal beyond.
== See Also==
* [[Inside]]
* [[Outside]]
* [[Unconscious]]
* [[Structure]]
* [[Torus]]
* [[Moebius strip]]
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Symbolic]]
[[Category:Real]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
