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The term "[[counterpart]]" plays an important part in [[Lacan]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] from the 1930s on, and designates other people in whom the [[subject]] perceives a likeness to himself (principally a visual likeness).
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The term "[[counterpart]]" plays an important part in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] from the 1930s on, and designates other people in whom the [[subject]] perceives a likeness to himself (principally a visual likeness).
  
 
The [[counterpart]] plays an important part in the [[intrusion complex]] and in the [[mirror stage]] (which are themselves closely related.
 
The [[counterpart]] plays an important part in the [[intrusion complex]] and in the [[mirror stage]] (which are themselves closely related.

Revision as of 22:22, 3 August 2006


"counterpart"

(Fr. semblable)

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The term "counterpart" plays an important part in Lacan's work from the 1930s on, and designates other people in whom the subject perceives a likeness to himself (principally a visual likeness).

The counterpart plays an important part in the intrusion complex and in the mirror stage (which are themselves closely related.