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==Jacques Lacan==The '[[fragmented body]]' ([[Frenchnotion]]:''corps morcelé'') refers to a concept developed by [[Jacques Lacan]] in his early work.The notion of the '[[fragmented body]]' ([[French]]:''corps morcelé'') is one of the earliest original [[:Category:Concepts|concepts]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is closely linked to the [[concept]] of the [[mirror stage]].

==Mirror Stage and Ego Formation==The 'In the [[fragmented bodymirror stage]]' is closely linked to the concept of [[infant]] sees its [[reflection]] in the [[mirror ]] as a [[whole]]/[[synthesis]], and this [[perception]] causes, by contrast, the [[perception]] of its own [[body]] (which [[lack]]s [[motor coordination]] at this [[stage]]) as [[division|divided]] and [[fragmentation|fragmented]].

In the [[mirror stage]] the [[infant]] sees its [[reflection]] in the [[mirror]] as a [[whole]]/[[synthesis]], and this [[perception]] causes, by contrast, the [[perception]] of its own [[body]] (which [[lack]]s [[motor coordination]] at this [[stage]]) as [[division|divided]] and [[fragmentation|fragmented]]. ==Ego Formation==The [[anxiety]] provoked by this [[feeling ]] of [[fragmentation]] fuels the [[identification]] with the [[specular image]] by which the [[ego]] is [[formation|formed]].

However, the [[anticipation ]] of a [[synthesis|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 associations [[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 disunity dis[[unity]] threatens the [[illusion]] of [[synthesis]] which constitutes the [[ego]].

[[Lacan]] also uses the idea of 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}}* [[mirror stageAggressivity]]* [[bodyAnxiety]]* [[lackCastration]]||* [[fragmentationEgo]]* [[anxietyGestalt]]* [[specular imageHysteria]]||* [[egoImaginary]]* [[aggressivityImago]]* [[illusionLack]]||* [[imaginaryMirror stage]]* [[transferenceSpecular image]]* [[hysteriaTransference]]{{Also}}

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