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The term "[[alienation]]", used by [[Jacques Lacan]], implies both [[psychiatric]] and [[philosophical]] references.

However, the [[Lacan]]ian concept of [[alienation]] differs greatly from the ways that the term is employed in the [[Hegel]]ian and [[Marx]]ist tradition.<ref>{{Sll}} p.215</ref>

For [[Lacan]], [[alienation]] is not an accident that befalls the [[subject]] and which can be transcended, but an essential constitutive feature of the [[subject]].

The [[subject]] is fundamentally [[split]], [[alienation|alienated]] from himself, and there is no escape from this [[division]], no possibility of "[[wholeness]]" or [[synthesis]].

[[Alienation]] is an inevitable consequence of the process by which the [[ego]] is constituted by [[identification]] with the [[counterpart]]:

In Rimbaud's words, "I is an other."<ref>{{E}} p.23</ref>

Thus [[alienation]] belongs to the [[imaginary]] [[order]]:

<blockquote>"Alienation is constitutive of the imaginary order. Alienation is the imaginary as such."<ref>{{S3}} p.146</ref></blockquote>

Although [[alienation]] is an essential characteristic of all [[subjectivity]], [[psychosis]] represents a more extreme form of [[alienation]].

[[Lacan]] coined the term ''[[extimacy]]'' to designate the nature of this [[alienation]], in which [[alterity]] inhabits the innermost core of the [[subject]].

* [[Subject]]

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