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==Jacques Lacan==[[Aggressivity ]] 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 ==Ambivalence==[[Lacan ]] draws a [[distinction ]] between [[aggressivity ]] and [[aggressivity|aggression, in that the latter ]]: [[aggressivity|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, {{S1}} p. 177</ref>Thus [[Lacan]] argues that [[aggressivity ]] is just as [[present, Lacan argues, ]] in apparently [[love|loving acts ]] [[act]]s as in violent ones; it "underlies the [[activity ]] of the philanthropist, the idealist, the pedagogue, and even the reformer.<ref>{{E, }} p. 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]]. ==Dual Relation==[[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 [[aggressivity|aggressive tension ]] between the [[specular image]] and the [[real ]] [[body]], since the [[wholeness ]] of the [[image]] seems to threaten the [[body ]] with [[fragmented body|disintegration ]] and fragmentation (see [[fragmented bodyfragmentation]]). ==Narcissism== The consequent [[identification]] with the [[specular image ]] thus implies an [[ambivalence|ambivalent ]] relation with the [[counterpart]], involving both [[eroticism]] and [[aggressivity|aggression]]. This '"[[aggressivity|erotic aggression' ]]" continues as a fundamental [[ambivalence ]] underlying all [[future ]] forms of [[identification]], and is an essential characteristic of [[narcissism]]. [[Narcissism ]] can thus easily veer from extreme [[love|self-love ]] to the opposite extreme of '"[[narcissism|narcissistic suicidal aggression' ]]" (''[[agression ]] suicidaire narcissique'').<ref>{{Ec, }} p. 187</ref> ==Imaginary==By linking [[aggressivity ]] to the [[imaginary]] [[order]] of [[eros]], [[Lacan ]] seems to diverge significantly from [[Freud]], since [[Freud ]] sees [[aggressivity ]] as an outward manifestation of the [[death drive]] (which is, in Lacanian [[Lacan]]ian [[terms]], situated not in the [[imaginary ]] but in the [[symbolic ]] [[order]]). [[Aggressivity ]] is also related by [[Lacan ]] to the [[Hegel]]ian concept of the [[fight to the death]], which is a [[stage ]] in the [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[slave]]. ==Treatment==[[Lacan ]] argues that it is important to bring the [[analysand]]'s [[aggressivity ]] into play early in the [[treatment ]] by causing it to emerge as [[negative ]] [[transference]].This [[aggressivity ]] directed towards the [[analyst]] then becomes "the initial [[knot ]] of the [[analytic ]] drama."<ref>{{E, }} p.14</ref>This [[phase ]] of the [[treatment]] is very important since if the [[aggressivity ]] is handled correctly by the [[analyst]], it will be accompanied by "a marked decrease in the [[patient]]'s deepest [[resistances]].<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflections on the Ego]]", 1951b''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]]''., vol. 34, 1953: p. 13</ref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]* [[Counterpart]]||* [[Death drive]]* [[Dialectic]]* [[Fragmented body]]||* [[Imaginary]]* [[Identification]]* [[Master]]||* [[Mirror stage]]* [[Narcissism]]* [[Psychoanalysis]]||* [[Specular image]]* [[Transference]]* [[Treatment]]{{Also}}

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