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The Scholion: A Misuse of Metaphor. Lacan's Notall - Logical consistency, clinical consequences

Guy Le Gaufey

Issue 47 — Summer 2011

The final part of Guy Le Gaufey‘s book ―Lacan‘s Notall – The Scholion: A Misuse of Metaphor, translated by Cormac Gallagher, deals with Lacan‘s treatment of the Borromean Knot and his attempt to use logic to deal with the problematic of sexual non-relationship of the inexistence of such a relationship. Le Gaufey traces Lacan‘s efforts to make a distinction between the two but to our surprise he concludes that Lacan felt his attempt ended in a failure – thus calling topology, or one aspect of topology – knot- theory into question.…

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