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The concept of the '[[fragmented body]]' ([[French]]:''[[corps morcelé]]'') is developed by [[Jacques Lacan]] in the context of the [[mirror stage]].
The resultant [[anxiety]] stimulates the [[subject]]'s [[identification]] with the complete [[image]] in the [[mirror]], but the [[fragmented body]] always poses a [[threat]] to its [[unity]].
According to [[Lacan]], the ''[[imago]]'' of the [[fragmented body]] reappears when the [[analysis]] touches upon or provokes the [[aggressivity]] of the [[analysand]].
==Mirror Stage and Ego Formation==
==Fragmentation==
The [[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>
These [[image]]s typically appear in the [[analysand]]'s [[dream]]s and associations at a particular phase in the [[treatment]] - namely, the moment when the [[analysand]]'s [[aggressivity]] emerges in the negative [[transference]].
<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]].
==Hysteria==
