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==Dyads==The paradigmatic [[dual relation]] ([[Fr]]. ''[[relation duelle]]'') is the relation between the [[ego]] and the [[specular image]] (''a'' ''a''') which [[Lacan]] analyzes in his [[concept ]] of the [[mirror stage]].

==Symmetry==The [[dual relation]] is always characterized by illusions [[illusion]]s of similarity, symmetry and reciprocity. --

==Triads==In the [[symbolic]] [[order]] all relations involve not two but [[three ]] [[terms]]; the [[third ]] term is the [[big Other]], which mediates all [[imaginary]] [[dual relation]]s.

==Non-Symmetry==The [[illusion]] of reciprocity in the [[imaginary]] [[dual relation]]ship contrasts with the [[symbolic]], which is the realm of "absolute non-reciprocity."<ref>{{Ec}} p.774</ref>

==Oedipus Complex==The [[Oedipus complex]] is the paradigmatic [[triad|triangular ]] [[structure]], since the [[father]] is introduced into the [[dual relation]] between [[mother]] and [[child]] as a third term.

==Structure==The [[Oedipal]] passage from a [[dual relation]] to a [[triad|triangular ]] [[structure]] is none other than the passage from the [[imaginary]] to the [[symbolic]] [[order]].

--=="Imaginary Triad"==The opposition between [[imaginary]] [[dyad]]s and [[symbolic]] [[triad]]s is complicated by [[Lacan]]'s [[discussion ]] of the '"[[imaginary triad]].'"<ref>{{E}} p.197; {{S4}} p.29</ref>

The [[imaginary]] [[triad]] is [[Lacan]]'s attempt to theorise theorize the [[preoedipal stage]] in terms other than those of a merely [[dual relation]]ship, and refers to the [[moment ]] preceding the [[Oedipus complex]], when a third element (the [[imaginary phallus]]) circulates between the [[mother]] and [[infant]].

It is for this [[reason ]] that [[Lacan]] writes that in the [[Oedipus complex]] "it is not a question of a father-mother-child [[triangle]], but of a triangle (father)-phallus-mother-child."<ref>{{S3}} p.319</ref> -- One of [[Lacan]]'s most frequent criticisms of the [[psychoanalytic theory]] of his day is that it constantly fails to theorise the role of the [[symbolic]], and thus reduces the [[psychoanalytic]] encounter to an [[imaginary]] [[dual relation]]ship between [[analyst]] and [[analysand]].  In particular, it reduces [[analytic]] [[treatment]] to an [[ego]]-to-[[ego]] encounter which, because of the [[aggressivity]] inherent in all [[imaginary]] [[dual relation]]s, often degenerates into a "[[fight to the death]]" between [[analyst]] and [[analysand]], a power struggle in which they are "at daggers drawn."

Against such a misconceptionIn [[particular]], it reduces [[analytic]] [[treatment]] to an [[Lacanego]]-to-[[ego] insists on the function ] encounter which, because of the [[symbolicaggressivity]] inherent in all [[imaginary]] [[dual relation]]s, often degenerates into a "[[fight to the death]]" between [[analyticanalyst]] and [[analysand]] process, which introduces the a [[Otherpower]] as the third term in the [[analyticstruggle]] encounterin which they are "at daggers drawn. "

<blockquote>"It is within ==Other==Against such a three- rather than two-misconception, [[Lacan]] insists on the function of the [[symbolic]] in the [[analytic]] [[process]], which introduces the [[Other]] as the third term relation that we have to formulate in the [[analytic experience."<ref>{{S1}} p]] encounter.11</ref></blockquote>

Rather <blockquote>"It is within a three- rather than seeing the [[treatment]] as a power struggle in which the [[analyst]] must overcome the [[patient]]'s [[resistance]], which is not [[psychoanalysis]] but [[suggestion]], the [[analyst]] must realise two-term relation that both he and the [[patient]] are equally subjected we have to formulate the power of a third term: analytic [[languageexperience]] itself."<ref>{{S1}} p. 11</ref></blockquote>

==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]]'s [[rejection ]] of [[duality]] can also be seen in his rejection of all [[dual]]istic schemes of [[thought ]] in favour of [[triad]]ic schemes.

<blockquote>"All two-sided relationships are always stamped with the style of [[the imaginary]]."<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Fetishism: The Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real]]" (with W. Granoff), in M. [[Balint]] (ed.), ''Perversions: [[Psychodynamics]] and [[Therapy]]'', New York: Random House, [[London]]: Tavistock, 1956b: . p. 274</ref></blockquote>

===More Triads===For example instead of the traditional binary opposition between what is [[real]] and what is [[imaginary]], [[Lacan]] proposes a [[tripartite ]] [[model ]] of [[real]], [[imaginary]] and [[symbolic]].

* [[EgoStructure]]||* [[InfantSymbolic]]* [[MotherTreatment]]{{Also}}