Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:17:06 -0500
From: sheppard-AT-isc.upenn.edu (Leah Sheppard)
Subject: Re: The Knot


Thanks for the clarification, Marco.

--LeaH


>Jacques Lacan created the Borromean Knot to show the linking of the 
>Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real
>
>See his _Ecrits_ as well as 
>Anika LEMAIRE, _Jacques Lacan_ (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977);
>also
>Marcelle MARINI _Jacques Lacan_ (Paris: Belfond, 1986)
>
>the latter two are much easier to read than Lacan's own writing on the 
>knot.
>
>With best wishes,
>-- Marco
>
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