Counterpart

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"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.