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The ==Jacques Lacan==[[image:lacan-torus.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Torus]] (The [[Frenchtorus]]: ''tore'') is one of the [[:category:figures|figures]] that [[Lacan]] analyses analyzes in his study of [[topology]].
==Torus==In its simplest form, it is a ring, a three-dimensional object formed by taking a cylinder and joining the two ends together.
--==Topology==[[Lacan]]'s first reference to the [[torus]] dates from 1953,<ref>{{E, }} p. 105</ref> but it is not until his work on [[topology]] in the 1970s that it begins to figure prominently in his work.
==Subject==
The [[topology]] of the [[torus]] illustrates certain features of the [[structure]] of the [[subject]]:
-- One important feature of the [[torus]] is that its centre center of gravity falls outside its volume, just as the centre of the [[subject]] is outside himself; he is [[decentred]], excentric. ----Another property of the '''[[torusextimacy|ex-centric]] is that "its peripheral exteriority and its central exteriority constitute only one single region'''."<ref>E, 105</ref>
This illustrates ==Extimacy==Another property of the way that [[psychoanalysistorus]] problematises the distinction between 'inside' is that "its peripheral exteriority and 'outsideits central exteriority constitute only one single region.' (see [[extimacy]])"<ref>{{E}} p.105</ref>
This illustrates the way that [[psychoanalysis]] problematises the distinction between "[[extimacy|inside" and "[[extimacy|outside]]". (see [[extimacy]]).
==See Also==
{{See}}* [[borromean Borromean knot]]* [[topologyExtimacy]]||* [[Mathematics]]* [[Moebius strip]]||* [[extimacyPsychoanalysis]]* [[subjectStructure]]||* [[cross-capSubject]]* [[knotTopology]]{{Also}}
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