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==Jacques Lacan==
The [[notion ]] of the [[fragmented body]] is one of the earliest original [[concepts ]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is closely linked to the [[concept ]] of the [[mirror stage]].
==Mirror Stage==
==Ego Formation==
The [[anxiety]] provoked by this [[feeling ]] of [[fragmentation]] fuels the [[identification]] with the [[specular image]] by which the [[ego]] is [[formation|formed]].
==Fragmentation==
However, the [[anticipation ]] of a synthetic [[ego]] is henceforth constantly threatened by the [[memory]] of this [[sense ]] of [[fragmentation]], which manifests itself in "[[images ]] of castration, emasculation, mutilation, dismemberment, dislocation, evisceration, devouring, bursting open of the body" which haunt the [[human ]] [[imagination]].<ref>{{E}} p. 11</ref>
==Transference==
These [[image]]s typically appear in the [[analysand]]'s [[dream]]s and [[free association|association]]s at a [[particular ]] [[phase ]] in the [[treatment]] - namely, the [[moment ]] when the [[analysand]]'s [[aggressivity]] emerges in the [[negative ]] [[transference]].
This moment is an important early [[sign]] that the [[treatment]] is progressing in the [[right ]] direction, i.e. towards the disintegration of the rigid [[unity]] of the [[ego]].<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflections on the Ego]]", ''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]].'', vol. 34, 1953 [1951b]: 13</ref>
==Illusion of Synthesis==
In a more general sense, the [[fragmented body]] refers not only to [[image]]s of the [[physical ]] [[body]] but also to any sense of [[fragmentation]] and disunity:
<blockquote>"He [the [[subject]]] is originally an inchoate collection of desires - there you have the [[true ]] sense of the expression fragmented body."<ref>{{S3}} p.39</ref></blockquote>
Any such sense of dis[[unity]] threatens the [[illusion]] of [[synthesis]] which constitutes the [[ego]].
[[Lacan]] also uses the term [[fragmented body]] to explain certain typical [[symptom]]s of [[hysteria]].
When a [[hysteria|hysterical]] [[paralysis]] affects a limb, it does not respect the [[physiological ]] [[structure]] of the nervous [[system]], but instead reflects the way the [[body]] is [[divided ]] up by an "imaginary anatomy".
In this way, the [[fragmented body]] is "revealed at the [[organic ]] level, in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as exhibited in the schizoid and spasmodic [[symptoms ]] of hysteria."<ref>{{E}} p. 5</ref>
==See Also==
