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==Origin of the Term==
The [[French]] substantive ''[[captation]]'' is a neologism coined by the [[French]] [[psychoanalysts]] Édouard Pichon and Odile Codet -- from the verb ''[[captation|capter]]''.<ref>Édouard Pichon and Odile Codet</ref>
It was adopted by [[Jacques Lacan]] in [[1948]] and occurs regularly in his [[work]] from this point on.
