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Greenshields summarises the main points posed in the preceding chapters, outlines the three main functions of topology in Lacan’s work and argues why topology has primacy over the other three disciplines (i.e. linguistics, logic and anti-philosophy) that Lacan contends should be part of a psychoanalytic curriculum.
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Greenshields, W. (2017). Conclusion: A New Imaginary. In: Writing the Structures of the Subject. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47533-2_5
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