topology

light bulb joke

geometry

torus

blanket

manifold

Klein Bottle

volume

Alabama

incest

mobius strip

shape

is radically non-metaphorical. The knot, rather than representing structure, is that structure.

Lacan moves to the much more complex area of the topology of knots. Topology is increasingly seen as a radically non-metaphorical way of exploring the symbolic order and its interactions with the real and the imaginary... rather than simply representing structure, topology is that structure. In this late period of his work, one kind of knot comes to interest Lacan more than any other: the Borromean knot. (Evans 1999 : 19)

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topology