Modern Western science started with mathematically modeling phenomena that were removed the furthest from us: the movements of the sun, the planets, the stars. With his Graph of Desire, the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, presented the fi rst mathematical model in the history of Western science for the phenomenon that is closest to us: subjective

experience.

Author Mattias Desmet shows how the various levels of subjectivity all relate to the same structure – the Graph of Desire. Desmet ...