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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]].

[[Lacan]] devotes the whole of chapter 16 of [[Seminar_XI|The Seminar, Book XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]] (1964a) to a discussion of [[alienation]] and the related concept of '''[[separation]]'''.