ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by building two conceptual bridges between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Jewish Kabbalah. The first links the fourth dimension of the Borromean knot and the several letters of the Tetragrammaton, while the second links the Kabbalistic teaching of the four worlds with the several dimensions of the Borromean knot. The chapter addresses the paradox of power and gender by placing them within the context of the registers of experience. The asymmetry between the sexes places the problem of equality in relationship to a loss or emptiness rather than in terms of a symmetrical net gain for masculinity and/ or femininity. Femininity and feminism are conceived in the image of imaginary masculinity. The Borromean knot, as a topological theory, is a theory of non-equilibrium, because far from equilibrium, oppositions, contradictions, repressions, divisions, misunderstandings, fluctuations, and bifurcations are the norm.
