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The ==Jacques Lacan==[[image: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 center of gravity falls [[outside]] its volume, just as the centre of the [[subject]] is outside himself; he is [[decentred]], '''[[extimacy|ex--centric]]'''.
One important feature ==Extimacy==[[Another]] property of the [[torus]] is that "its centre of gravity falls outside peripheral exteriority and its volume, just as the centre of the [[subject]] is outside himself; he is [[decentred]], excentriccentral exteriority constitute only one single region."<ref>{{E}} p.105</ref>
----Another property of This illustrates the way that [[psychoanalysis]] problematises the [[distinction]] between "[[torusextimacy|inside]] is that "its peripheral exteriority and its central exteriority constitute only one single region"[[extimacy|outside]]". (see [[extimacy]])."<ref>E, 105</ref>
This illustrates the way that ==See Also=={{See}}* [[psychoanalysisBorromean knot]] problematises the distinction between 'inside' and 'outside.' (see * [[extimacyExtimacy]]).||* [[Mathematics]]* [[Moebius strip]]||* [[Psychoanalysis]]* [[Structure]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Topology]]{{Also}}
==References==
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==See Also==
* [[borromean knot]]
* [[topology]]
* [[extimacy]]
* [[subject]]
* [[cross-cap]]
* [[knot]]
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