ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan psychoanalysis shares with phenomenology an interest in the complexity of the manifold layers of experience. Lacan represented such layering or braiding with his theory and diagram of the Borromean knot. The Lacanian theory of the Borromean knot provides a multidimensional framework that illuminates how different notions, perspectives, and dimensions of experience interact and intersect one another. As a psychoanalyst, Lacan believed that theory was necessary to study and develop a therapeutic method for the problems and suffering associated with human experience. Truth for Lacan does not refer to the correspondence of empirical knowledge with the material reality of the universe. Instead of being based on bare facts, truth refers to mythical/invisible forms of unconscious knowledge or to senseless mathematical numbers and symbols. Lacan speaks of symbols/signifiers that are unrepresentable and unpronounceable within language and culture. These signs or symbols have a meaning in the Real that escapes the sense, meaning, and reference available within the culture.
