Editing Matheme (section)

==Criticism==

Though sometimes disparaged as a case of "[[physics envy]]" or accused of introducing false rigor into a discipline that is more literary theory than hard science, there is also something of a sense of humor in Lacan's formulas: of one 'sigla which I have introduced in the form of an algorithm', Lacan himself has declared that 'it is created to allow for a hundred and one different readings, a multiplicity that is admissible as long as the spoken remains caught in its algebra'.<ref>Jacques Lacan, ''Écrits:  A Selection'' (London 1997) p. 313</ref>

[[Serge Leclaire]], who is one of the most respected and distinguished of all French analysts, remarked in 1975, for example, that whilst the mathemes might have a certain pedagogic utility, they were basically no more than "graffiti"'.<ref>Macey, p. xxxii</ref>