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According to [[Lacan]], the ''[[imago]]'' of the [[fragmented body]] reappears when the [[analysis]] touches upon or provokes the [[aggressivity]] of the [[analysand]].
==Surrealism==
The [[image]] of the [[fragmented body]] does not derive from [[Freud]].
[[Lacan]] himself compares it to the [[hallucination|hallucinatory]] [[image|imagery]] of Hieronymus Bosch.
It has been suggested that [[Lacan]]'s ''[[imago]]'' is influenced by Hans Bellmer's [[photograph|photographs]] of a dismembered and rearranged doll.<ref>Bowie, Malcolm. ''Lacan''. London: Fontana, 1991.</ref>
They are inspired by the [[artist]]'s [[sexual]] [[obsession]] with a young girl and appeared in a [[surrealist]] journal to which [[Lacan]] contributed.
This suggestion is therefore highly plausible, and provides a reminder of [[Lacan]]'s debt to [[surrealism]].
