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{| align="[[right]]" style="line-height:2.0em;margin-left:10px;align:right;text-align:right;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #aaa" | [[French]]: ''[[imaginaire]]''|-| [[German]]: ''[[Imaginäre{{Bottom}}==Jacques Lacan==In the [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] of [[Jacques Lacan]], the [[real]], the [[symbolic]], and the [[imaginary]] are a central [[order|set of references]]. The [[imaginary ]] is the realm [[order|field]] of the [[ego]].<!--In the [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] of unarticulated (but articulable) identifications [[Jacques Lacan]], the [[real]], the [[symbolic]], and idealisations which the [[imaginary]] are the building blocks a central [[order|set of fantasy and ego; it references]]. The [[imaginary]] is the most basic level [[order|field]] of selfthe [[ego]].--><!--conception, =====History=====[[Lacan]]'s use of the precursor term "[[imaginary]]" as a substantive dates back to subjectivity[[{{Y}}|1936]]. <ref>{{Ec}} p. 81</ref> The chief difference term relates to the [[dual relation]] between the [[ego]] and the [[specular image]]. From [[{{Y}}|1953]] on, the [[imaginary]] becomes one of the [[order|three orders]] which constitute the [[order|tripartite scheme]] at the center of [[Lacan]]ian [[thought]], being opposed to the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]. --><!--It took Lacan twenty years to restore the imaginary to its [[full]] [[place]] alongside the real and [[the imaginary symbolic]], which he did within the topic of the Borromean [[knot]] (a set of [[three]] interlinked rings that come apart if any one is removed).--><!-- In his 1936 essay "Au-delà du 'principe de réalité"' (Beyond the [[reality]] [[principle]]), Lacan noted that [[Freud]] discovered a [[meaning]] in [[patients]]' complaints that [[other]] physicians considered imaginary and thus [[illusory]]. In his first [[reading]] of Freud's [[work]], Lacan emphasized the [[notion]] of the image by highlighting its function: reflecting the subject's discrete behaviors in [[unified]] [[images]]. In the [[mirror]] [[stage]], the subject [[identifies]] with these images and develops an ego [[concept]] in relation to [[another]]. -->=====Ego=====The [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is available to symbolisationbased on the [[formation]] of the [[ego]] in the [[mirror stage]] by [[identification]] with the [[counterpart]] (or [[specular image]]). The difficulty with discussing [[dual relation]] between the [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]] is characterized by [[alienation]] and [[narcissism]].<!-- The [[imaginary |imaginary order]] is that once it has been symbolised it ceases to be imaginary7; though based on the [[mirror stage]], whereby the content remains [[ego]] is constituted by [[identification]] with the same[[other|little other]]. The [[ego]] is [[formation|formed]] by [[identification|identifying]] with the [[counterpart]] or [[specular image]]. Thus, a formal metamorphosis takes place such that [[identification]] is an important aspect of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]]. The [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]] [[form]] the new incarnation prototypical [[dual relation]]ship, and are interchangeable. identification is never quite adequate essential to its fantastic precursorthe structure of the imaginary [[order]] and to the [[development]] of the human ego. It </i> The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is the [[mirror stage]], in this sense that "which the [[subject]] [[identification|identifies]] with its [[counterpart]] or [[specular image] and develops an ego concept in relation to another. ((Since the imaginary [[ego]] is always already structured formed by [[identifying]] with the [[counterpart]] or [[specular image]], [[identification]] is an important aspect of the symbolic [[imaginary|imaginary order" (Evans 82]]. ))--><!--83) – as soon as it This relationship whereby the [[ego]] is articulatedconstituted by [[identification]] with the [[other|little other]] means that the [[ego]], elevated into consciousnessand the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] itself, it are both sites of a radical [[alienation]]; "Alienation is subject to constitutive of the imaginary order."<ref>{{S3}} p. 146</ref> The [[dual relation]]ship between the [[ego]] and the structuring imperative [[counterpart]] is fundamentally [[narcissistic]], and [[narcissism]] is another characteristic of the symbolic [[imaginary|imaginary order]]. [[Narcissism]] is always accompanied by a certain [[aggressivity]].-->
== def ===Psychology=====The fundamental narcissism by which [[imaginary]] is the [[dimension]] of the [[human ]] [[subject creates fantasy images of both himself and his ideal object of desire, according to Lacan. The imaginary order ]] which is most closely tied linked to Lacan's theorization of [[animal]] [[psychology]], yet it is [[structure]]d by the mirror stage. What must be remembered is [[symbolic]], and this means that for Lacan this "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm continues to exert its influence throughout of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref><!--the [[imaginary]] represents the life closest point of the adult contact between [[human]] [[subjectivity]] and [[animal]] [[ethology]],<ref>{{S2}} p. 166</ref> it is not merely superceded simply identical; the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] in the child'[[human]] [[being]]s movement into is [[structure]]d by the [[symbolic order]], and this means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref>All attempts to explain [[human]] [[subjectivity]] in [[terms]] of [[animal]] [[psychology]] are thus limited to the [[imaginary]]. Indeed Although the [[imaginary]] represents the closest point of contact between [[human]] [[subjectivity]] and [[animal]] [[ethology]], <ref>{{S2}} p. 166</ref> it is not simply identical; the [[imaginary|imaginary and order]] in [[human]] [[being]]s is [[structure]]d by the [[symbolic are, according to Lacan]], inextricably intertwined and work this means that "in tension with man, the Real. See imaginary relation has deviated [from the Lacan module on the structure realm of the psychenature]."<ref>{{S2}} p.210</ref> -->
=====Criticism=====
[[Lacan]] accused the major [[school|psychoanalytic schools]] of reducing [[psychoanalysis]] to the [[imaginary|imaginary order]].
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[[Lacan]] accused the major [[school|psychoanalytic schools]] of his day of reducing [[psychoanalysis]] to the [[imaginary|imaginary order]]: these [[psychoanalysts]] made [[identification]] with the [[analyst]] into the [[goal]] of [[treatment|analysis]], and reduced [[treatment|analysis]] to a [[dual relation]]ship.<ref>{{E}} p. 246-7</ref> [[Lacan]] sees this as a [[complete]] [[betrayal]] of [[psychoanalysis]], a deviation which can only eveer succeed in increasing the [[alienation]] of the [[subject]].
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