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==Complex and Imago==The term "[[complex]]" occupies an important [[place ]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] before 1950, where it is closely related to the [[imago]].

Whereas the [[imago]] designates an [[imaginary]] stereotype relating to one person, the [[complex]] is a [[whole ]] constellation of interacting [[imago]]s; it is the [[internalization ]] of the [[subject]]'s earliest [[structure|social structures 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.

In his pre-war workNevertheless, while drawing this [[explicit]] contrast between [Lacan[complex]] argues that it is because es and [[humaninstinct]] s, [[psychologyLacan]] is based on the also recognizes that [[complex]]es, which are entirely may be compared to [[instinct]]s in that they make up for the [[culturalinstinct]] products, rather than on ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[naturalhuman]] [[instinctinfant]]s, and argues that human the [[behaviourcomplex]] cannot be explained by reference to es are propped on [[biological]] givensfunctions such as [[weaning]]. <ref>{{1938}} p.32-3</ref>

Nevertheless, while drawing this explicit contrast between [[complex]]es and [[instinct]]s, ==Family Complexes==In 1938 [[Lacan]] also recognises that [[complexidentifies]]es may be compared to [[instinctthree]]s in that they make up for the "[[instinctfamily complexes]]ual inadequacy (insuffisance vitale) ," each of which is the trace of a "[[human]] [[infantpsychical]], and argues that the crisis" which accompanies a "[[complex]life]es are propped on [[biological]] functions such as [[weaning]].<ref>{{1938}} pcrisis.32-3</ref>"

In 1938 <blockquote>"Whether [[trauma]]tic or not, [[weaning]] leaves in the [[Lacanhuman]] identifies three "[[family complexespsyche]]," each a permanent trace of the [[biological]] relation which it interrupts. This life crisis is the trace of in effect accompanied by a "psychical crisis" which accompanies , without [[doubt]] the first whose solution has a [[dialectic]]al [[structure]]."life crisis<ref>{{1938}} p." 27</ref></blockquote>

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>{{1938}} p.27</ref></blockquote> --===Intrusion Complex===After the [[weaning]] [[complex]] comes the [[intrusion complex]] (''[[complexe de l'intrusion]]''), which represents the [[experience ]] that the [[child]] has when he realises realizes that he has siblings.   The [[child]] must then cope with the fact that he is no longer the exclusive [[object]] of his parents' attention.  The third and final [[family complex]] is the [[Oedipus Complex]]. -- After their appearance in the 1938 paper, the terms "[[weaning complex]]" and "[[intrusion complex]]" disappear almost completely from [[Lacanparents]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]]. However, the [[Oedipus complex]] remains a fundamental reference point throughout, and this is complemented by a growing interest, from 1956 on, in the [[castration complex]]attention.