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before 1950, where it is closely related to Whereas the [[image]].  The ''[[imago]]'' designates an [[imaginary]] stereotype relating to one person.  , the [[complex]] is a [[whole ]] constellation of interacting ''[[imago]]s''; it is the [[internalisationinternalization]] of the [[subject]]'s earliest social [[structure|social structure]]s (i.e. the relationships between the various actors in his [[family ]] [[environment]]).

--==Complex and Instinct==In his pre-war [[work]], [[Lacan]] argues that it is because [[human]] [[psychology]] is based on the [[complex]]es, which are entirely [[cultural]] products, rather than on [[natural]] [[instinct]]s, that [[human ]] [[behaviour]] cannot be explained by reference to [[biological]] givens.  Nevertheless, while drawing this explicit contrast between [[complex]]es and [[instinct]]s, [[Lacan]] also recognises that [[complex]]es may be compared to [[instinct]]s in that they make up for the [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (insuffisance vitale) of the [[human]] [[infant]], and argues that the [[complex]]es are propped on [[biological]] functions such as [[weaning]].<ref>Lacan, 1938: 32-3</ref> -- In 1938 [[Lacan]] identifies three "[[family complexes]]," each of which is the trace of a "psychical crisis" which accompanies a "life crisis."  The first of these [[complex]]es is the [[weaning]] [[complex]] (''[[complexe du sevrage]]'').  Taking up the idea of a "trauma of weaning," first developed by René Laforgue in the 1920s, [[Lacan]] argues that no matter how late [[weaning]] occurs, it is always perceived by the [[infant]] as coming too early. <blockquote>Whether [[trauma]]tic or not, [[weaning]] leaves in the [[human]] [[psyche]] a permanent trace of the [[biological]] relation which it interrupts. This life crisis is in effect accompanied by a psychical crisis, without doubt the first whose solution has a [[dialectic]]al [[structure]].<ref>Lacan, 1938: 27</ref></blockquote> -- After the [[weaning]] [[complex]] comes the [[intrusion complex]] (''[[complexe de l'intrusion]]''), which represents the experience that the [[child]] has when he realises that he has siblings.

The Nevertheless, while drawing this [[childexplicit]] must then cope with contrast between [[complex]]es and [[instinct]]s, [[Lacan]] also recognizes that [[complex]]es may be compared to [[instinct]]s in that they make up for the fact [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[human]] [[infant]], and argues that he is no longer the exclusive [[objectcomplex]]es are propped on [[biological]] functions such as [[weaning]] of his parents' attention. <ref>{{1938}} p.32-3</ref>

The third and final ==Family Complexes==In 1938 [[Lacan]] [[identifies]] [[three]] "[[family complexcomplexes]] ," each of which is the trace of a "[[psychical]] crisis" which accompanies a "[[Oedipus Complexlife]]crisis."

After their appearance <blockquote>"Whether [[trauma]]tic or not, [[weaning]] leaves in the 1938 paper, [[human]] [[psyche]] a permanent trace of the terms "[[weaning complexbiological]]" and "relation which it interrupts. This life crisis is in effect accompanied by a psychical crisis, without [[intrusion complexdoubt]]" disappear almost completely from the first whose solution has a [[Lacandialectic]]'s al [[Works of Jacques Lacan|workstructure]]."<ref>{{1938}} p.27</ref></blockquote>

However, ===Intrusion Complex===After the [[weaning]] [[complex]] comes the [[Oedipus intrusion complex]] remains a fundamental reference point throughout(''[[complexe de l'intrusion]]''), and this which represents the [[experience]] that the [[child]] has when he realizes that he has siblings. The [[child]] must then cope with the fact that he is complemented by a growing interest, from 1956 on, in no longer the exclusive [[castration complexobject]] of his [[parents]]' attention.