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==Critical DictionaryJacques Lacan==The [[notion]] of the [[fragmented body]] is one of the earliest original [[concepts]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is closely linked to the [[concept]] of the [[mirror stage]].
==Mirror Stage==In his early paper on the [[mirror stage]] (1949), the [[Lacaninfant]] refers to the ''sees its [[imagoreflection]]'' of in the [[fragmented bodymirror]] as an a [[imagewhole]]/[[synthesis]], and this [[perception]] causes, by contrast, the [[perception]] of its own [[castrationbody]] (which expresses the [[subjectlack]]'s [[feelingmotor coordination]] that the at this [[bodystage]] ) as [[lackdivision|divided]]s any substantial and [[unityfragmentation|fragmented]].
==Fragmentation==
==Transference==These [[image]]s typically appear in the [[analysand]]'s [[dream]]s and associations [[free association|association]]s at a [[particular ]] [[phase ]] in the [[treatment]] - namely, the [[moment ]] when the [[analysand]]'s [[aggressivity]] emerges in the [[negative ]] [[transference]].
This moment is an important early [[sign]] that the [[treatment]] is progressing in the [[right ]] direction, i.e. towards the disintegration of the rigid [[unity]] of the [[ego]].<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflections on the Ego]]", ''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]].'', vol. 34, 1953 [1951b]: 13</ref>
==Illusion of Synthesis==In a more general sense, the [[fragmented body]] refers not only to [[image]]s of the [[physical ]] [[body]] but also to any sense of [[fragmentation]] and disunity:
<blockquote>"He [the [[subject]]] is originally an inchoate collection of desires - there you have the [[true ]] sense of the expression fragmented body."<ref>{{S3}} p.39</ref></blockquote>
Any such sense of dis[[unity]] threatens the [[illusion]] of [[synthesis]] which constitutes the [[ego]].
[[Lacan]] also uses the term [[fragmented body]] to explain certain typical [[symptom]]s of [[hysteria]].
When a [[hysteria|hysterical]] [[paralysis]] affects a limb, it does not respect the [[physiological ]] [[structure]] of the nervous [[system]], but instead reflects the way the [[body]] is [[divided ]] up by an '"imaginary anatomy'".
In this way, the [[fragmented body]] is "revealed at the [[organic ]] level, in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as exhibited in the schizoid and spasmodic [[symptoms ]] of hysteria."<ref>{{E}} p.5</ref> ==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]].
==See Also==
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Specular imageCastration]]||
* [[Ego]]
* [[AggressivityGestalt]]* [[IllusionHysteria]]||
* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Imago]]
* [[Lack]]
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* [[Mirror stage]]
* [[Specular image]]
* [[Transference]]
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