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| − | The term '[[counterpart]]' ([[French]]:''[[semblable]]'') denotes other people in whom the [[subject]] perceives a (visual) likeness to itelf.
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| − | The [[counterpart]] plays an important part in [[Lacan]]'s work from the 1930s on, in the [[mirror stage]] and in the [[intrusion complex]].
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| − | == Mirror Stage==
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| − | The [[child]] [[identifies]] with its [[image]] on the basis of the recognition of bodily similarity.
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| − | It is this [[identification]] that gives rise to the "imago of the counterpart."<ref>Lacan, 1938: 35-9</ref>
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| − | The [[imago]] of the [[counterpart]] is interchangeable with the [[image]] of the [[subject]]'s own [[body]], the [[specular image]] with which the [[subject]] [[identifies]] in the [[mirror stage]], leading to the [[formation]] of the [[ego]].
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| − | This interchangeability is evident in such phenomena as [[transitivism]], and illustrates the way that the [[subject]] constitutes his [[object]]s on the basis of his [[ego]].
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| − | The [[image]] of another person's [[body]] can only be [[identified]] with insofar as it is perceived as similar to one's own [[body]], and conversely the [[counterpart]] is only recognised as a [[separate]], [[identifiable]] [[ego]] by [[projection|projecting]] one's own [[ego]] onto him.
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| − | In 1955 [[Lacan]] introduces a distinction between 'the [[big Other]]' and 'the [[little other]]' (or 'the [[imaginary other]]'), reserving the latter term for the [[counterpart]] and/or [[specular image]].
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| − | The [[counterpart]] is the [[little other]] because it is not truly [[other]] at all; it is not the radical [[alterity]] represented by the [[Other]], but the [[other]] insofar as he is similar to the [[ego]] (hence the interchangeability of a and a' in [[schema L]]).
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | counterpart 278 [[Seminar XI]]
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Revision as of 22:19, 3 August 2006
