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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.
==Ambivalence==
[[Lacan]] draws a [[distinction]] between [[aggressivity]] and [[aggressivity|aggression]]: [[aggressivity|aggression]] refers only to [[violence|violent]] [[act]]s whereas [[aggressivity]] is a fundamental relation which underlies not only such [[acts]] but many [[other]] phenomena also.<ref>{{S1}} p. 177</ref> [[Lacan]] argues that [[aggressivity]] is just as [[present]] in apparently [[love|loving]] [[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> [[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==[[AggressivityLacan]] 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]] (French:''agressivité'') this contrast is one experienced as an [[aggressivity|aggressive tension]] between the [[specular image]] and the [[real]] [[body]], since the [[wholeness]] of the central issues that Lacan deals with in his papers in the period 1936 [[image]] seems to threaten the early 1950s[[body]] with [[fragmented body|disintegration]] and [[fragmentation]].
==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 draws ]] seems to diverge significantly from [[Freud]], since [[Freud]] sees [[aggressivity]] as an outward manifestation of the [[death drive]] (which is, in [[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 distinction between aggressivity [[stage]] in the [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and aggressionthe [[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]]", ''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]]''., vol. 34, 1953: p. 13</ref>
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