Correction to: Palgrave Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-017-0035-y, published online 28 November 2017

The original version of the article contained two figures (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2) which appeared in the incorrect order. The order of the two images has now been changed so that the correct image appears with the caption for Fig. 1 and the correct image appears with the caption for Fig. 2.

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Lacan’s matheme for the structure of fantasy

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Lacan’s structure of the capitalist discourse

These errors have now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the paper.