In The Library of Babel, Borges dialogues with mathematics, logic, philosophy and psychopathology. This article promotes a methodological encounter of Borges with Lacan, highlighting the articulation between literary fiction and formal thought. Through the topology of the torus, a structural homology is proposed between the Library and the Other, allowing a comparison of the different positions of the characters of the short story with those of the subject in the language.
Key words
Psychoanalysis; psychopathology; literature; topology
