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[[AggressivityLacan]] draws a distinction between [[aggressivity ]]and [[aggression]] (French:''agressivité'') is one of the central issues that Lacan deals with in his papers in the period 1936 to the early 1950s.

[[Lacan draws a distinction between ]] argues that [[aggressivity ]] is just as present in apparently loving acts as in violent ones; it "underlies the activity of the philanthropist, the idealist, the pedagogue, and aggressioneven the reformer.<ref>{{E}} p.7</ref>

[[AggressionLacan]] refers only 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 [[violence|violentbody]] with disintegration and [[actfragmentation]]s whereas (see [[aggressivityfragmented body]] is a fundamental relation which underlies not only such acts but many other phenomena also).<ref>see Sl, 177</ref>

Lacan argues that The consequent [[aggressivityidentification]] is just as present in apparently loving acts as in violent ones; it "underlies with the activity of [[specular image]] thus implies an [[ambivalent]] relation with the philanthropist, the idealist, the pedagogue[[counterpart]], involving both [[eroticism]] and even the reformeraggression.<ref>E, 7</ref>

In taking this stance, Lacan is simply restating This 'erotic aggression' continues as a fundamental [[Freudambivalence]]'s concept underlying all future forms of [[ambivalenceidentification]] (the interdependence , and is an essential characteristic of [[lovenarcissism]] and . [[hateNarcissism]]), which Lacan regards as one of the fundamental discoveries of can thus easily veer from extreme [[psychoanalysisself-love]]to the opposite extreme of 'narcissistic suicidal aggression' (''agression suicidaire narcissique'').<ref>{{Ec}} p.187</ref>

Lacan situates aggressivity in the By linking [[dual relationaggressivity]] between to the [[egoimaginary]] and the [[counterpartorder]].In the of [[mirror stageeros]], 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 [[imageLacan]] seems to threaten the body with disintegration and fragmentation (see diverge significantly from [[fragmented bodyFreud]]).The consequent [[identification]] with the specular image thus implies an ambivalent relation with the counterpart, involving both since [[eroticismFreud]] and aggression. This 'erotic aggression' continues as a fundamental ambivalence underlying all future forms of identification, and is an essential characteristic of sees [[narcissism]]. Narcissism can thus easily veer from extreme self-love to the opposite extreme of 'narcissistic suicidal aggression' (''agression suicidaire narcissique'').<ref>Ec, 187</ref>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]]. [[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, }} 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>Lacan, 1951b: 13</ref>  ==See Also==

[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]