The French substantive ''[[{{Top}}capter|captation]]'' is a neologism coined by the French psychoanalysts Edouard Pichon and Odile Codet, from the verb ''capter''. {{Bottom}}
It was adopted ==Origin of the Term==The [[French]] substantive ''[[captation]]'' is a neologism coined by Lacan in 1948 to refer to the [[imaginaryFrench]] [[psychoanalysts]] effects of from the verb ''[[specular imagecaptation|capter]]''.<ref>see E, 18Édouard Pichon and Odile Codet</ref>, and occurs regularly in his work from this point on.
The double sense of the French term nicely indicates the ambiguous nature of the power of the specular image==Jacques Lacan==It was adopted by [[Jacques Lacan]] in [[1948]] and occurs regularly in his [[work]] from this point on.
On ==Imaginary Effects of the one hand, it has Specular Image==[[Lacan]] uses the sense of term ''[[captation]]'captivation', thus expressing to describe the fascinating, seductive power [[imaginary]] effects of the [[specular image]]on the [[subject]].<ref>{{E}} p. 18</ref>
On the other hand, The [[double]] [[sense]] of the [[French]] term also conveys nicely indicates the idea ambiguous [[nature]] of 'capture', which evokes the more sinister power of the image to imprison the [[subjectpower]] in a disabling of the [[fixation.specular image]] ==References==<references/>:
* On the one hand, it conveys the sense of "[[captivation]]," thus expressing the fascinating, [[seduction|seductive power]] of the [[image]].
* 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]].
==See Also==
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* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Specular image]]
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* [[Seduction]]
* [[Subject]]
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