The term 'complex' (''{{Top}}complexe'') occupies an important place in Lacan's work before 1950, where it is closely related to the [[image]]. {{Bottom}}
Whereas the imago designates ==Complex and Imago==The term "[[complex]]" occupies an imaginary stereotype relating to one personimportant [[place]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] before 1950, the complex is a whole constellation of interacting imagos; where it is closely related to the internalisation of the subject's earliest social structures (i.e. the relationships between the various actors in his family nvironment)[[imago]].
A complex involves multiple identifications with all Whereas the interacting imagos[[imago]] designates an [[imaginary]] stereotype relating to one person, and thus provides the [[complex]] is a script according to which [[whole]] constellation of interacting [[imago]]s; it is the [[internalization]] of the [[subject is led ]]'to play out, as s earliest [[structure|social structure]]s (i.e. the sole actor, the drama of conflicts' relationships between the members of various actors in his [[family]] [[environment]]).<ref>Ec, 90</ref>
A [[complex]] involves multiple [[identification]]s with all the interacting ''[[imago]]s'', and thus provides a script according to which the [[subject]] is led "to play out, as the sole actor, the drama of conflicts' between the members of his family."<ref>{{Ec}} p.90</ref>
==Complex and Instinct==In his pre-war [[work]], [[Lacan ]] argues that it is because [[human ]] [[psychology ]] is based on the complexes[[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 complexes [[complex]]es and instincts[[instinct]]s, [[Lacan ]] also recognises recognizes that complexes [[complex]]es may be compared to instincts [[instinct]]s in that they make up for the instinctual [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[human ]] [[infant]], and argues that the complexes [[complex]]es are propped on [[biological ]] functions such as [[weaning]].<ref>Lacan, {{1938: }} p.32-3</ref>
==Family Complexes==
In 1938 [[Lacan]] [[identifies]] [[three]] "[[family complexes]]," each of which is the trace of a "[[psychical]] crisis" which accompanies a "[[life]] crisis."
In 1938 Lacan identifies three 'family complexes', each ===Weaning Complex===The first of which these [[complex]]es is the trace of a [[weaning|weaning complex]] ('psychical crisis' which accompanies a [[complexe du sevrage]]'life crisis'). 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.
The first <blockquote>"Whether [[trauma]]tic or not, [[weaning]] leaves in the [[human]] [[psyche]] a permanent trace of these complexes the [[biological]] relation which it interrupts. This life crisis is in effect accompanied by a psychical crisis, without [[doubt]] the weaning complex (complexe du sevrage)first whose solution has a [[dialectic]]al [[structure]]."<ref>{{1938}} p. 27</ref></blockquote>
Taking up ===Intrusion Complex===After the idea of a [[weaning]] [[complex]] comes the [[intrusion complex]] (''[[complexe de l'intrusion]]'trauma of weaning'), first developed by RenÈ Laforgue in which represents the 1920s, Lacan argues [[experience]] that the [[child]] has when he realizes that he has siblings. The [[child]] must then cope with the fact that he is no matter how late weaning occurs, it is always perceived by longer the infant as coming too earlyexclusive [[object]] of his [[parents]]' attention.
===Oedipus Complex===
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 [[Lacan]]'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]].
Whether traumatic or not, weaning leaves in the human psyche a permanent trace of the biological relation which it interrupts. ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Biology]]* [[Castration complex]]* [[Culture]]||* [[Development]]* [[Imago]]* [[Intrusion complex]]||* [[Instinct]]* [[Nature]]* [[Oedipus complex]]||* [[Structure]]* [[Subject]]* [[Weaning|Weaning complex]]{{Also}}
This life crisis is in effect accompanied by a psychical crisis, without doubt the first whose solution has a dialectical structure. (Lacan, 1938==References==<div style="font-size: 27)11px" class="references-small"><references/></div>
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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 Lacan's work (there is a brief reference to them in 1950, but little else; Ec, 141). 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]].__NOTOC__
