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''{| style="line-height:2.0em;text-align:justify;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #aaa" | [[GestaltGerman]]: '' is a [[GermanGestalts|Gestalt]] word meaning an organized pattern or [[whole]] which has properties other than those of its components in isolation.''|}

The experimental study of ==Definition==''[[gestaltGestalt]]s began in 1910 with the study of certain phenomena of perception, and led to '' is a [[schoolGerman]] of thought known as "[[gestaltword]] [[psychologymeaning]]" which was based on a holistic concept of [[mind]] and an organized pattern or [[bodywhole]] and which stressed the has properties [[psychologicalother]] importance than those of its components in [[bodyisolation]] presentation.

These ideas formed The experimental study of [[gestalt]]s began in 1910 with the basis study of certain phenomena of [[Gestaltperception]] , and led to a [[therapyschool]]of [[thought] ] known as developed by Paul Goodman, Fritz Perls "[[gestalt]] [[psychology]]" which was based on a holistic [[concept]] of [[mind]] and [[body]] and Ralph Hefferlinewhich stressed the [[psychological]] importance of [[body]] presentation.

When These [[Lacanideas]] refers to formed the [[gestalt]], he refers specifically to one kind basis of oganized pattern, namely the [[visualGestalt]] [[imagetherapy]] of another member of the same species, which is perceived as a developed by [[unified]] [[wholePaul]]Goodman, Fritz Perls and Ralph Hefferline.

Such an ==Jacques Lacan==When [[Lacan]] refers to the [[gestalt]], he refers specifically to one kind of oganized pattern, namely the [[visual]] [[image]] is a of [[another]] member of the same [[gestaltspecies]] because it has an effect , which none of its component parts have in isolation; this effect is to act perceived as a "releasing mechanism" ([[Frenchunified]]: ''déclencheur'') which triggers certain [[instinctwhole]]ual responses, such as reproductive behavior.<ref>{{S1}} p.121f</ref>

Such an [[image]] is a [[gestalt]] because it has an effect which none of its component parts have in isolation; this effect is to act as a "releasing [[mechanism]]" ([[French]]: ''déclencheur'') which triggers certain [[instinct]]ual responses, such as [[reproductive]] [[behavior]].<ref>{{S1}} p. 121f</ref> ==Animals==In other [[words]], when an [[animal ]] perceives a [[unified]] [[image]] of another member of its species, it responds in certan [[instinct]]ual ways.

==Fragmented Body==It is by [[identifying]] with the [[unified]] [[gestalt]] of the [[body]] [[image]] that the [[ego]] is constantly threatened by [[fear]]s of [[fragmented body|disintegration]], which [[manifest ]] themselves in [[image]]s of the [[fragmented body]]; these [[image]]s [[represent ]] the opposite of the [[unified]] [[gestalt]] of the [[body]] [[image]].

{{See}}* [[Ego]]* [[Fragmented body]]||* [[Identification]]* [[Instinct]]||* [[ImageMirror stage]]* [[BodySpecular image]]{{Also}}

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