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- In mathematics, the Borromean rings[a] consist of three topological circles which are linked and form a Brunnian link (i.e., removing any ring results in two unlinked rings). In other words, no two of the three rings are linked with each other as a Hopf link, but nonetheless all three are linked.
- Lacan first takes up the Borromean knot in the seminar of 1972-3, but his most detailed discussion of the knot comes in the seminar of 1974-5. It is in this seminar that Lacan uses the Borromean knot as, among other things, a way of illustrating the interdependence of the three orders of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, as a way of exploring what it is that these three orders have in common.
Each ring represents one of the three orders, and thus certain elements can be located at intersections of these rings. (In his view these orders are tied together in the form of a "Borromean knot".
The "Borromean knot" is a linkage of three "string rings" in such a way that no two rings intersect. The structure of the knot is such that the cutting of any one ring will liberate all of the others.
Lacan used the theory of knots to stress the relations which bind or link the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, and the subject to each, in a way which avoids any notion of hierarchy, or any priority of any one of the three terms.
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