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==Psychoanalysis==
Originally introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[Jung]] in 1911, the [[Latin ]] term ''[[imago]]'' had already become standard in [[psychoanalytic]] [[:category:terms|terminology]] by the [[time ]] [[Lacan]] began [[training]] as a [[psychoanalyst]] in the 1930s.
==Images==
The term is clearly related to the term "[[image]]", but it is meant to emphasize the [[subjective ]] determination of the [[image]]; in [[other ]] [[words]], it includes [[feelings ]] as well as a [[visual ]] [[representation]].
[[Imago]]s are specifically [[image]]s of other [[people]].
However, they are not the product of purely personal [[experience ]] but [[universal ]] prototypes which may be actualized in anyone's [[psyche]].
[[Imago]]s act as stereotypes influencing the way the [[subject]] relates to other people, who are perceived through the lens of these various [[imago]]s.
==Complex==
The term "[[imago]]" occupies a central [[role ]] in [[Lacan]]'s pre-1950 writings, where it is closely related to the term [[complex]].
In 1938, [[Lacan]] [[links ]] each of the [[three ]] [[family complex]]es to a specific [[imago]]: the [[weaning]] [[complex]] is liked to the [[imago]] of the [[maternal ]] [[breast]], the [[intrusion complex]] to the [[imago]] of the [[counterpart]], and the [[Oedipus complex]] to the [[imago]] of the [[father]].<ref>{{1938}}</ref>
==Psychology==
In 1946, [[Lacan]] argues that in formulating the [[concept ]] of the [[imago]], [[psychoanalysis]] has provided [[psychology]] with a proper [[object ]] of study and thus set [[psychology]] on a truly [[scientific ]] footing.
<blockquote>"It is possible.. to designate in the imago the proper object of psychology, exactly to the same extent that [[Galileo]]'s [[notion ]] of the inert [[material ]] poitn formed the basis of phsyics."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 188</ref></blockquote>
==Negative Effects==
Whereas for [[Jung]] and [[Klein]] [[imago]]s have equally positive and [[negative ]] effects, in [[Lacan]]'s [[work ]] they are weighted firmly towards the negative, [[being ]] funamentally deceptive and disruptive elements.
[[Lacan]] speaks of the [[imago]] of the [[fragmented body]], and even [[autonomy|unified]] [[imago]]s such as the [[specular image]] are mere [[illusion]]s of [[lack|wholeness]] which introduce an underlying [[aggressivity]].
<blockquote>"The first effect of the imago which appears in the [[human ]] being is an effect of subjective ''[[alienation]]''.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 181</ref></blockquote>
==Jacques Lacan==
After 1950 the term "[[imago]]" [[disappears ]] almost entirely from [[Lacan]]'s [[theoretical]] [[:category:concepts|vocabulary]].
However, the basis [[ideas ]] developed around the term in [[Lacan]]'s pre-1950 writings continue to play an important part in his [[thinking]], being articulated around other [[terms]], principally the term "[[image]]".
==See Also==
