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→The Case of Aimée
In her ideas of persecution, it was this figure that she saw as the source of [[threats]] to her and her young son. The [[ideal image]] was thus both the [[object]] of her [[hate]] and of her aspiration. [[Lacan]] was especially interested here in this complex relation to [[image]]s and the ideas of [[identity]] to be found in [[paranoia]]. In her subsequent arrest and confinement, she found the [[punishment]] which was a real source of the [[act]] itself. She understood, at a certain level, that ''she was herself the [[object]] of [[punishment]]''.
[[Lacan]]'s analysis of the [[case]] shows many of the [[feautresfeatures]] which would later become central to his work: [[narcissism]], the [[image]], the [[ideal]], and how the [[personality]] could extend beyond the limits of the [[body]] and be constituted within a [[symbolic|complex social network]]. The actress represented a part of [[Aimée]] herself, indicating how the [[identity]] of a [[human]] [[being]] could include elements well [[outside]] the [[biological]] boundaries of the [[body]]. In a sense, ''[[Aimée]]'s [[identity]] was literally [[outside]] of herself''.
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