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A [[complex]] involves multiple [[identification]]s with all the interacting ''[[imago]]s'', and thus provides a script according to which the [[subject]] is led "to play out, as the sole actor, the drama of conflicts' between the members of his family."<ref>{{Ec}} p.90</ref>
In his pre-war work, [[Lacan]] argues that it is because [[human]] [[psychology]] is based on the [[complex]]es, which are entirely [[cultural]] products, rather than on [[natural]] [[instinct]]s, that human [[behaviour]] cannot be explained by reference to [[biological]] givens.
Nevertheless, while drawing this explicit contrast between [[complex]]es and [[instinct]]s, [[Lacan]] also recognises that [[complex]]es may be compared to [[instinct]]s in that they make up for the [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[human]] [[infant]], and argues that the [[complex]]es are propped on [[biological]] functions such as [[weaning]].<ref>{{1938}} p.32-3</ref> --
==Family Complexes==
In 1938 [[Lacan]] identifies three "[[family complexes]]," each of which is the trace of a "psychical crisis" which accompanies a "life crisis."
===Weaning Complex===The first of these [[complex]]es is the [[weaning]] [[|weaning complex]] (''[[complexe du sevrage]]'').
Taking up the idea of a "trauma of weaning," first developed by René Laforgue in the 1920s, [[Lacan]] argues that no matter how late [[weaning]] occurs, it is always perceived by the [[infant]] as coming too early.
<blockquote>Whether [[trauma]]tic or not, [[weaning]] leaves in the [[human]] [[psyche]] a permanent trace of the [[biological]] relation which it interrupts. This life crisis is in effect accompanied by a psychical crisis, without doubt the first whose solution has a [[dialectic]]al [[structure]].<ref>{{1938}} p.27</ref></blockquote>
The [[child]] must then cope with the fact that he is no longer the exclusive [[object]] of his parents' attention.
===Oedipus Complex===
The third and final [[family complex]] is the [[Oedipus Complex]].
After their appearance in the 1938 paper, the terms "[[weaning complex]]" and "[[intrusion complex]]" disappear almost completely from [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]].
==See Also==
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* [[Biology]]
* [[Castration complex]]
* [[Culture]]
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* [[Development]]
* [[Imago]]
* [[Intrusion complex]]
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* [[Instinct]]
* [[Nature]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
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* [[Structure]]
* [[Subject]]
* [[Weaning|Weaning complex]]
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==References==
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