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[[Lacan]]'s use of the term "[[imaginary]]" as a substantive dates back to 1936.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 81</ref> The term relates to the [[dual relation]] between the [[ego]] and the [[specular image]]. From 1953 on, the [[imaginary]] becomes one of the [[order|three orders]] which constitute the tripartite scheme at the centre of [[Lacan]]ian thought, being opposed to the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]].
The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] continues to be the formation of the [[ego]] in the [[mirror stage]].
This relationship whereby the [[ego]] is constituted by [[identification]] with the [[other|little other]] means that the [[ego]], and the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] itself, are both sites of a radical [[alienation]];
<blockquote>"Alienation is constitutive of the imaginary order."<ref>{{S3}} p. 146</ref></blockquote>
===Captation===The principal illusions [[imaginary]] exerts a [[captation|captivating power]] over the [[subject]], founded in the almost hypnotic effect of the [[specular image]]. The [[imaginary]] are those is thus rooted in [[subject]]'s relationship to his own body (or rather to the [[image]] of his body). This [[gestaltcaptation|wholenesscaptivating/capturing power]] is both [[seductive]], (the [[dialectic|synthesisimaginary]]is manifested above all on the sexual plane, in such forms as sexual display and courtship rituals)<ref>{{L}} "[[autonomous ego|autonomySituation de la psychanalyse et formation du psychanalyste en 1956]], ." ''[[dual relation|dualityÉcrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966 [1956b] : 272</ref> and, above all, disabling: it imprisons the [[counterpart|similaritysubject]]in series of static fixations.
===Nature====
The [[imaginary]] is the dimension of the [[human]] [[subject]] which is most closely linked to ethology and animal psychology.<ref>{{S3}} p. 253</ref> All attempts to explain [[human]] [[subjectivity]] in terms of animal psychology are thus limited to the [[imaginary]]. Although the [[imaginary]] represents the closest point of contact between [[human]] [[subjectivity]] and animal ethology,<ref>{{S2}} p. 166</ref> it is not simply identical; the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] in [[human]] [[being]]s is [[structure]]d by the [[symbolic]], and this means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref>
[[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]].
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* [[Aggressivity]]
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