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 ==Jacques Lacan==<!--

[[Lacan]]'s use of the term "[[imaginary]]" as a substantive dates back to [[{{Y}}|1936]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 81</ref> The term relates to the [[dual relation]] between the [[ego]] and the [[specular image]]. From [[{{Y}}|1953]] on, the [[imaginary]] becomes one of the [[order|three orders]] which constitute the [[order|tripartite scheme]] at the center of [[Lacan]]ian [[thought]], being opposed to the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]. --><!--It took Lacan twenty years to restore the imaginary to its [[full]] [[place]] alongside the real and [[the symbolic]], which he did within the topic of the Borromean [[knot]] (a set of [[three]] interlinked rings that come apart if any one is removed).--><!-- In his 1936 essay "Au-delà du 'principe de réalité"' (Beyond the [[reality ]] [[principle]]), Lacan noted that [[Freud ]] discovered a [[meaning ]] in [[patients]]' complaints that [[other ]] physicians considered imaginary and thus [[illusory]]. In his first [[reading ]] of Freud's [[work]], Lacan emphasized the [[notion ]] of the image by highlighting its function: reflecting the subject's discrete behaviors in [[unified ]] [[images]]. In the [[mirror ]] [[stage]], the subject [[identifies ]] with these images and develops an ego [[concept ]] in relation to [[another]]. -->=====Ego=====The [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is based on the [[formation]] of the [[ego]] in the [[mirror stage]] by [[identification]] with the [[counterpart]] (or [[specular image]]). The paradigmatic [[dual relation]] between the [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]] or [[specular image]] is characterized by [[alienation]] and [[narcissism]]. [[Lacan]] writes that "[[alienation]] is constitutive of the [[order|imaginary order]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 146</ref>  The [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]] form a [[dual relation]] which is characterized by [[alienation]] and [[narcissism]]. The [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is characterized by [[alienation]] and [[narcissism]]. 

The [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is based on the [[mirror stage]], whereby the [[ego]] is constituted by [[identification]] with the [[other|little other]]. The [[ego]] is [[formation|formed]] by [[identification|identifying]] with the [[counterpart]] or [[specular image]]. Thus, [[identification]] is an important aspect of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]]. The [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]] [[form ]] the prototypical [[dual relation]]ship, and are interchangeable.  identification is essential to the structure of the imaginary [[order ]] and to the [[development ]] of the human ego.</i> The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is the [[mirror stage]], in which the [[subject]] [[identification|identifies]] with its [[counterpart]] or [[specular image] and develops an ego concept in relation to another.

=====Image=====The [[dual relationimaginary]]ship between is the realm of [[image]] and [[egoimagination]], [[truth|deception]] and [[lure]]. The principal illusions of the [[counterpartimaginary]] are those of [[gestalt|wholeness]], [[dialectic|synthesis]] is fundamentally , [[narcissisticautonomous ego|autonomy]], [[dual relation|duality]] and , above all, [[counterpart|similarity]]. <!-- The [[imaginary]] exerts a [[narcissismcaptation|captivating power]] is another characteristic over the [[subject]], founded in the almost hypnotic effect of the [[specular image]]. The [[imaginary]] is thus rooted in [[subject]]'s [[relationship]] to his own [[body]] (or rather to the [[image]] of his body). This [[captation|captivating/capturing power]] is both [[seductive]] (the [[imaginary order]] is manifest­ed above all on the [[sexual]] plane, in such forms as sexual display and courtship [[rituals]])<ref>{{L}} "[[Situation de la psychanalyse et formation du psychanalyste en 1956]]. " ''[[NarcissismÉcrits]] is always accompanied by a certain ''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966 [1956b]: 272</ref> and disabling: it imprisons the [[aggressivitysubject]]in series of static fixations.

This relation­ship whereby the [[egoimaginary]] 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 constituted by [[identificationstructure]] with d by the [[other|little othersymbolic]] , and this means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref>All attempts to explain [[human]] [[subjectivity]] in [[terms]] of [[animal]] [[psychology]] are thus limited to the [[egoimaginary]]. Although the [[imaginary]] represents the closest point of contact between [[human]] [[subjectivity]] and [[animal]] [[ethology]], and <ref>{{S2}} p. 166</ref> it is not simply identical; the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] itself, are both sites of a radical in [[human]] [[being]]s is [[structure]]d by the [[alienationsymbolic]]; , and this means that "Alienation is constitutive of in man, the imaginary orderrelation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S3S2}} p. 146210</ref> -->

The =====Criticism=====[[dual relationLacan]]ship between accused the major [[egoschool|psychoanalytic schools]] and of reducing [[psychoanalysis]] to the [[counterpartimaginary|imaginary order]] is fundamentally .<!--[[narcissisticLacan]], and accused the major [[narcissismschool|psychoanalytic schools]] is another characteristic 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> [[NarcissismLacan]] is always accompanied by sees this as a certain [[aggressivitycomplete]] [[betrayal]] of [[psychoanalysis]], a deviation which can only eveer succeed in increasing the [[alienation]] of the [[subject]].

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