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==DefinitionSigmund Freud==The term "[[alienation]]", used by does not constitute part of [[Jacques LacanFreud]], implies both 's [[psychiatrictheory|theoretical]] and [[philosophical:category:concepts|vocabulary]] references.

It does not constitute part of ==Jacques Lacan=====References===In [[FreudLacan]]'s [[theoryJacques Lacan:Bibliography|theoreticalwork]] the term implies both [[:category:concepts|vocabularypsychiatric]] and [[philosophical]]. references:

In ;Psychiatry[[LacanFrench]][[psychiatry]] in the nineteenth century (e.g. Pinel) conceived of [[mental]] [[illness]] as ''s [[Works of Jacques Lacanalienation|workaliénation mentale]] the '', and a common term implies both in [[psychiatricFrench]]for "[[madness|madman] and ]" is ''[[philosophicalalienation|aliéné]] references:.''<ref>{{Ec}} p. 154</ref>

==Psychiatry== ;PhilosophyThe term "[[Frenchalienation]] " is the usual [[psychiatrytranslation]] in for the nineteenth century (e.g. Pinel) conceived of mental illness as [[German]] term ''aliénation mentale[[alienation|Entfremdung]]'', and a common term which features in the '''[[Frenchphilosophy]] for "''' of [[madness|madmanHegel]]" is ''and [[alienation|aliénéMarx]].''<ref>{{Ec}} p. 154</ref>

==Philosophy== The term "However, the [[alienationLacan]]" is the usual translation for the ian [[Germanconcept]] term ''of [[alienation|Entfremdung]]'' which features differs greatly from the ways that the term is employed in the [[philosophyHegel]] of ian and [[HegelMarx]] and ist [[Marxtradition]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 215</ref>

However, the ===Subject===For [[Lacan]]ian concept of , [[alienation]] differs greatly from the ways is not an accident that befalls the term is employed in the '''[[Hegelsubject]]ian ''' and which can be transcended, but an essential constitutive feature of the '''[[Marxsubject]]ist tradition.<ref>{{S11}} p'''. 215</ref>

==Split==For The [[Lacansubject]] is fundamentally '''[[split]]''', [[alienation|alienated]] from himself, and there is not an accident that befalls the no escape from this [[subjectdivision]] and which can be transcended, but an essential constitutive feature no possibility of the "[[subjectwholeness]]" or [[synthesis]].

The ===Ego===[[subjectAlienation]] is fundamentally an inevitable consequence of the [[splitprocess]], by which the '''[[alienation|alienatedego]] from himself, and there ''' is no escape from this [[division]], no possibility of "constituted by '''[[wholenessidentification]]" or ''' with the [[synthesiscounterpart]].:

==Ego==[[Alienation]] <blockquote>"The initial synthesis of the ''ego'' is essentially an inevitable consequence of the process by which the [[''alter ego]] '', it is constituted by [[identification]] with the [[counterpart]]: alienated."<ref>{{S3}} p. 39</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>In Rimbaud's [[words]], "the initial synthesis of the ego I is essentially an alter ego, it is alienated[[other]]."<ref>{{S3E}} p.3923</ref></blockquote>

In Rimbaud===Imaginary===Thus [[alienation]] belongs to the 's words, "I is an other."<ref>{{E}} p. 23</ref>''[[imaginary]] [[order]]''':

==Imaginary==Thus <blockquote>"Alienation is constitutive of [[alienation]] belongs to the [[imaginary]] order. Alienation is [[orderThe Imaginary|the imaginary]]: as such."<ref>{{S3}} p. 146</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>"Alienation ===Psychosis===Although [[alienation]] is constitutive an essential characteristic of the imaginary order. Alienation is the imaginary as such."<ref>{{S3}} pall [[subjectivity]], '''[[psychosis]]''' represents a more extreme [[form]] of [[alienation]]. 146</ref></blockquote>

==Psychosis==Although [[alienation]] is an essential characteristic of all [[subjectivity]], [[psychosis]] represents a more extreme form of [[alienation]]. =="Extimacy"===[[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]]'''.