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This mistrust of the [[imaginary|imagination]] and the senses puts [[Lacan]] firmly the side of [[science|rationalism]] rather than [[science|empiricism]].
=====Imaginary Reductionism=====
[[Lacan]] accused the major [[school|psychoanalytic schools]] of his day of reducing [[psychoanalysis]] to the [[imaginary|imaginary order]]: these psychoanalysts made [[identification]] with the [[analyst]] into the goal of [[treatment|analysis]], and reduced [[treatment|analysis]] to a [[dual relation]]ship.<ref>{{E}} p. 246-7</ref>
[[Lacan]] sees this as a complete betrayal of [[psychoanalysis]], a deviation which can only eveer succeed in increasing the [[alienation]] of the [[subject]].
=====Symbolic in Analysis======
Against such [[imaginary]] reductionism, [[Lacan]] argues that the essence of [[psychoanalysis]] consists in its use of the [[symbolic]].
This use of the [[symbolic]] is the only way to dislodge the disabling fixations of the [[imaginary]].
Thus the only way for the [[analyst]] to gain any purchase on the [[imaginary]] is by transforming the [[images]] into [[word]]s, just as [[Freud]] treats the [[dream]] as a rebus:
<blockquote>The imaginary is decipherable only if it is rendered into [[symbol]]s.<ref>{{L}} 1956b: 269</ref>
This use of the [[symbolic]] is the only way for the [[treatment|analytic process]] "to cross the plane of identification."<ref>{{S11}} p. 273</ref>
=====See Also=====
{{See}}
* [[Aggressivity]]
* [[Alienation]]
* [[Captation]]
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* [[Counterpart]]
* [[Dual relation]]
* [[Ego]]
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* [[Identification]]
* [[Knowledge]]
* [[Linguistics]]
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* [[Mirror stage]]
* [[Narcissism]]
* [[Nature]]
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* [[Specular image]]
* [[Subject]]
* [[Structure]]
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* [[Symbol]]
* [[Symbolic]]
{{Also}}
=====References=====
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