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The [[French]] substantive ''[[captation]]'' is a neologism coined by the [[French]] [[psychoanalysts]] Édouard Pichon and Odile Codet -- from the verb ''[[captation|capter]]''.<ref>Édouard Pichon and Odile Codet</ref>

[[Lacan]] uses the term ''[[captation]]'' to describe the [[imaginary]] effects of the [[specular image]] on the [[subject]].<ref>{{E}} p.18</ref> The double sense of the [[French]] term -- "[[captivation]]" and "[[capture]]" -- nicely indicates the ambiguous nature of the [[power]] of the [[specular image]]. ===Captivation===On the one hand, it has the sense of "[[captivation]]," thus expressing the fascinating, [[seduction|seductive power]] of the [[image]].

On the one hand, it conveys the sense of "The [[captivationdouble]]," thus expressing the [[powersense]] of the [[specular imageFrench]] to term nicely indicates the ambiguous [[fascinatenature]] and/or to of the [[seducepower]] of the [[subjectspecular image]].:

===Capture===* On the other one hand, the term also it conveys the idea sense of "[[capturecaptivation]]," which evokes the more sinister power of thus expressing the fascinating, [[imageseduction|seductive power]] to imprison of the [[subjectimage]] in a disabling fixation.

* On the [[other ]] hand, the term also conveys the [[idea ]] of "[[capture]]," which evokes the more sinister power of the [[image]] to "imprison" and/or to "hold" the [[subject]] in a disabling [[fixation]].