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{| align="[[right]]" style="line-height:2.0em;margin-left:10px;align:right;text-align:right;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #aaa" | [[French]]: ''[[imaginaire]]''|-| [[German]]: ''[[Imaginäre{{Bottom}}==Jacques Lacan==In the [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] of [[Jacques Lacan]], the [[real]], the [[symbolic]], and the [[imaginary]] are a central [[order|set of references]]. The [[imaginary ]] is the realm [[order|field]] of the [[ego]].<!--In the [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] of unarticulated (but articulable) identifications [[Jacques Lacan]], the [[real]], the [[symbolic]], and idealisations which the [[imaginary]] are the building blocks a central [[order|set of fantasy and ego; it references]]. The [[imaginary]] is the most basic level [[order|field]] of selfthe [[ego]].--><!--conception, =====History=====[[Lacan]]'s use of the precursor term "[[imaginary]]" as a substantive dates back to subjectivity[[{{Y}}|1936]]. <ref>{{Ec}} p. 81</ref> The chief difference 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 imaginary 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 available to symbolisationbased on the [[formation]] of the [[ego]] in the [[mirror stage]] by [[identification]] with the [[counterpart]] (or [[specular image]]). The difficulty with discussing [[dual relation]] between the [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]] is characterized by [[alienation]] and [[narcissism]].<!-- The [[imaginary |imaginary order]] is that once it has been symbolised it ceases to be imaginary7; though based on the [[mirror stage]], whereby the content remains [[ego]] is constituted by [[identification]] with the same[[other|little other]]. The [[ego]] is [[formation|formed]] by [[identification|identifying]] with the [[counterpart]] or [[specular image]]. Thus, a formal metamorphosis takes place such that [[identification]] is an important aspect of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]]. The [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]] [[form]] the new incarnation prototypical [[dual relation]]ship, and are interchangeable. identification is never quite adequate essential to its fantastic precursorthe structure of the imaginary [[order]] and to the [[development]] of the human ego. It </i> The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is the [[mirror stage]], in this sense that "which the [[subject]] [[identification|identifies]] with its [[counterpart]] or [[specular image] and develops an ego concept in relation to another. ((Since the imaginary [[ego]] is always already structured formed by [[identifying]] with the [[counterpart]] or [[specular image]], [[identification]] is an important aspect of the symbolic [[imaginary|imaginary order" (Evans 82]]. ))--><!--83) – as soon as it This relation­ship whereby the [[ego]] is articulatedconstituted by [[identification]] with the [[other|little other]] means that the [[ego]], elevated into consciousnessand the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] itself, it are both sites of a radical [[alienation]]; "Alienation is subject to constitutive of the imaginary order."<ref>{{S3}} p. 146</ref> The [[dual relation]]ship between the [[ego]] and the structuring imperative [[counterpart]] is fundamentally [[narcissistic]], and [[narcissism]] is another characteristic of the symbolic [[imaginary|imaginary order]]. [[Narcissism]] is always accompanied by a certain [[aggressivity]].-->

This dual nature of the =====Image=====The [[imaginary, its fundamental incompatibility with symbolisation despite its vulnerability to being symbolised, points to its status as ]] is the middle ground between the real realm of [[image]] and the symbolic[[imagination]], both in terms of the individual’s development as an infant [[truth|deception]] and in terms of the topology of subjectivity as depicted in the Borromean knot[[lure]]. Generated by the individual’s developmental experience The principal illusions of the mirror stage (about which I will have more to say shortly), the [[imaginary order is the domain ]] are those of the [[gestalt|wholeness]], [[dialectic|synthesis]], [[autonomous ego|autonomy]], [[dual relation|duality]] and, above all, [[counterpart|similarity]]. <!-- The [[imaginary]] exerts a realm of identifications (i.e. spurious but necessary) with objects [[captation|captivating power]] over the [[subject]], founded in the world by which the individual ceaselessly attempts to shore up his or her identity. This ongoing process of identification is the result of the trauma almost hypnotic effect of the mirror stage, during which the infants’ primary narcissism (or inability to differentiate between himself or herself and any external entity or object) is fractured[[specular image]]. The result [[imaginary]] is the ability thus rooted in [[subject]]'s [[relationship]] to perceive the differences between self and other his own [[body]] (which amounts or rather to the advent [[image]] of the selfhis body), inaugurating the lifelong quest to return to . This [[captation|captivating/capturing power]] is both [[seductive]] (the pre-[[imaginary stage of primary narcissism during which there was no differentiation between self and other.8 In pursuit of this impossible goal ]] is manifest­ed above all on the individual develops fantasised identifications that reassure him or her by imaginatively reducing difference to identification[[sexual]] plane, producing in the process an imago or ideal egosuch forms as sexual display and courtship [[rituals]])<ref>{{L}} "[[Situation de la psychanalyse et formation du psychanalyste en 1956]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966 [1956b]: 272</ref> and disabling: it imprisons the vision [[subject]] in series of him or herself which he or she takes to be the essence of identitystatic fixations. -->

== def ===Psychology=====The fundamental narcissism by which [[imaginary]] is the [[dimension]] of the [[human ]] [[subject creates fantasy images of both himself and his ideal object of desire, according to Lacan. The imaginary order ]] which is most closely tied linked to Lacan's theorization of [[animal]] [[psychology]], yet it is [[structure]]d by the mirror stage. What must be remembered is [[symbolic]], and this means that for Lacan this "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm continues to exert its influence throughout of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref><!--the [[imaginary]] represents the life closest point of the adult contact between [[human]] [[subjectivity]] and [[animal]] [[ethology]],<ref>{{S2}} p. 166</ref> it is not merely superceded simply identical; the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] in the child'[[human]] [[being]]s movement into is [[structure]]d by the [[symbolic order]], 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 [[imaginary]]. Indeed 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 and order]] in [[human]] [[being]]s is [[structure]]d by the [[symbolic are, according to Lacan]], inextricably intertwined and work this means that "in tension with man, the Real. See imaginary relation has deviated [from the Lacan module on the structure realm of the psychenature]."<ref>{{S2}} p.210</ref> -->

In ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Jacques LacanAggressivity]]'s theory of psychic structures, '''the Imaginary''' refers to the non-linguistic aspect of the * [[psycheAlienation]], formulated during the * [[Captation]]||* [[Counterpart]]* [[Dual relation]]* [[Ego]]||* [[Identification]]* [[Knowledge]]* [[Linguistics]]||* [[Mirror Stagestage]]* [[Narcissism]]* [[Nature]]||* [[Specular image]]* [[Subject]]* [[Structure]]||* [[Symbol]]* [[Symbolic]].{{Also}}

== [[Kid A In Alphabet Land]] == [[ImageCategory:Kida_i.gif |right|frameDevelopment]]'''Kid A In Alphabet Land Incinerates Another Insufferable Irritant - The Insouciant Imaginary!''' "You're Imaginary!" Said Kid A."This Is Easy...All Too Easy..." The Kid Thought, "Is It Only A Matter Of Time Before They See Through My Thin Veneer?..."''Remember: Not'' Fraud, ''but'' Freud![[Category:Kid A In Alphabet Land]]__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__