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==Origin==The [[French]] substantive ''[[captation]]'' is a neologism coined by the [[French]] [[psychoanalysts]] Édouard Pichon and Odile Codet, -- from the verb ''[[captation|capter]]''. ''[[Captation]]'' is a [[French]] term introduced by [[psychoanalyst]]s Eduard Picon and Odile Codet.
It was adopted by [[Jacques Lacan]] in [[1948]] and occurs regularly in his [[work]] from this point on.
[[Lacan]] uses the term ''[[captation]]'' to describe the [[imaginary]] effects of the [[specular image]] on the [[subject]].<ref>{{E}} p.18</ref>