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==def==This notion The child identifies with his image on the basis of the 'specular ego' was first developed in recognition of bodily similarity. It is this identification that gives rise to the essay"imago of the counterpart."<ref>Lacan, 'The mirror Stage.'1938: 35-9</ref>

==def==The term ‘counterpart’ (semblable) plays an important part in Lacan’s work from imago of the counterpart is interchangeable with the image of the 1930s onsubject's own body, and designates other people in whom the [[specular image]] with which the [[subject perceives a likeness to himslef (principally a visual likeness). The counterpart plays an important part in the intrusion complex and ]] identifies in the [[mirror stage]], leading to the formation of the [[ego]].

The ‘imago of the counterpart’ This interchangeability is interchangeable with the image of the subject’s own body, the specular iamge with which the subject identifies evident in the mirror stagesuch phenomena as [[transitivism]], leading to the formation of the ego. This interchangeability and illustrates the way that the subject constitutes his objects on the basis of his ego. The image of another perosn’s person's body can only be identified with insofar as it is perceived as similar to one’s one's own body, and conversely the counterpart is only recognized recognised as a separate, identifiable ego by projecting one’s one's own ego onto him.

==def==   counterpart (ge√labie) 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 interrelated).  The intrusion complex is one This notion of the three 'family complexesspecular ego' which Lacan  discusses in his 1938 article on the family, and arises when the child was first  realises that he has siblings, that other subjects like him participate developed in the  family structure. The emphasis here is on likeness; the child identifies with his  siblings on the basis of the recognition of bodily similarity (which depends, of  course, on their being a relatively small age difference between the subject and  his siblings). It is this identification that gives rise to the 'imago of the  counterpart' (Lacanessay, 1938: 35-9).  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. This interchangeability is  evident in such phenomena aS TRANSITIVISM, and illustrates the way that the  subject constitutes his objects on the basis of his ego. 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 projecting one's own ego onto him.  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 imageMirror Stage. 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