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[[Aggressivity ]] (French:''agressivité'') is one of the central issues that Lacan deals with in his papers in the period 1936 to the early 1950s. The first point that should be noted is that Lacan draws a distinction between aggressivity and aggression, in that the latter . [[Aggression]] refers only to [[violence|violent]] [[act]]s whereas the former [[aggressivity]] is a fundamental relation which underlies not only such acts but many other phenomena also.<ref>see Sl, 177</ref>Thus Lacan argues that [[aggressivity ]] is just as present, Lacan argues, in apparently loving acts as in violent ones; it "underlies the activity of the philanthropist, the idealist, the pedagogue, and even the reformer.<ref>E, 7</ref>
In taking this stance, Lacan is simply restating [[Freud]]'s concept of [[ambivalence]] (the interdependence of [[love]] and [[hate]]), which Lacan regards as one of the fundamental discoveries of [[psychoanalysis]].
Lacan situates aggressivity in the [[dual relation]] between the [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]].
In the [[mirror stage]], the [[infant]] sees its reflection in the mirror as a wholeness, in contrast with the uncoordination in the [[real]] [[body]]: this contrast is experienced as an aggressive tension between the [[specular image]] and the real body, since the wholeness of the [[image]] seems to threaten the body with disintegration and fragmentation (see [[fragmented body]]).
