Changes

==OriginJacques Lacan==The [[French]] substantive ''[[captation]]'' is a neologism coined by the [[French]] [[psychoanalysts]] Édouard Pichon and Odile Codet -- from the verb ''[[captation|capter]]''. 

==The Imaginary Effect Effects of the Specular Image==[[Lacan]] uses the term ''[[captation]]'' to describe the [[imaginary]] effects of the [[specular image]] on the [[subject]].<ref>{{E}} p.18</ref>

The double sense of the [[Frenchdouble]] term - "[[captivationsense]]" and "of the [[captureFrench]]" - term nicely indicates the ambiguous [[nature ]] of the [[power]] of the [[specular image]].:

===Captivation===* On the one hand, it has conveys the sense of "[[captivation]]," thus expressing the fascinating, [[seduction|seductive power]] of the [[image]].

* On the one hand, it conveys the sense of "[[captivation]]." In this sense, ''[[captation]]'' refers to the [[powerother]] of the [[specular image]] to "[[captivate]]" -- to [[fascinate]] and/or to [[seduce]] -- the [[subject]]. ===Capture===On the other hand, the term also conveys the [[idea ]] of "[[capture]]," which evokes the more sinister power of the [[image]] to imprison the [[subject]] in a disabling fixation. On the other hand, the term also conveys the idea of "[[capture]]." In this sense, ''[[captationfixation]]'' refers to the [[power]] of the [[specular image]] to "[[capture]]" -- to "imprison" and/or to "hold" -- the [[subject]] (in a disabling fixation).