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==Jacques Lacan===Sigmund Freud=====[[LacanFreud]] uses the term in this sense too in his early works.<ref>{{L}} 1938. p"[[inversion]]" to designate [[homosexuality]], the idea being that [[homosexuality]] is the [[inverse]] of [[heterosexuality]].109</ref>
===More==Jacques Lacan==========Early Work=====[[Lacan]] uses the term in this sense too in his early works.<ref>{{L}} (1938) ''Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l'individu. Essai d'analyse d'une fonction en psychologie'', Paris: Navarin, 1984. p.109</ref> =====Later Work=====
However, in [[Lacan]]'s post-war works the term is used in quite a different sense.
=====Specular Image=====
[[Inversion]] then usually refers to a characteristic of the [[specular image]].
What appears on one side of the [[real]] [[body]] appears on the other side of the [[image]] of the [[body]] reflected in the [[mirror]].<ref>{{L}} (1951b) "Some reflections on the ego," ''Int. J. Psycho-Anal''., vol. 34, 1953. p.15</ref>
=====Imaginary Order=====
By extension, [[inversion]] becomes a quality of all [[imaginary]] phenomena, such as [[transitivism]].
=====Schema L=====Thus in [[schema L]], the [[imaginary]] is represented as a barrier blockign blocking the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]], causing this [[discourse]] to arrive at the [[subject]] ''in an inverted form''.
=====Analytic Communication=====Hence [[Lacan]]'s definition of [[communication| analytic]] [[communication]] in which the sender receives his own [[message]] in an [[inversion|inverted form]].
===More==Leonardo da Vinci=====
In 1957, both senses of the term are brought together in [[Lacan]]'s discussion of [[Leonardo da Vinci]].
Taking up [[Freud]]'s argument about [[Leonardo]]'s [[homosexuality]].<ref>{{F}} (1910c.) ''Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood'', [[SE]] XI, p. 59.</ref>
[[Lacan]] goes on to argue that [[Leonardo]]'s [[specular]] [[identification]] was highly unusual in that it resulted in an [[inversion]] of the positions (on [[schema L]]) of the [[ego]] and the [[little other]].<ref>{{S4}} p.433-4</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Communication]]
* [[Identification]* [[Ego]]
* [[Specular image]]
* [[Schema L]]
* [[Homosexuality]]* [[HeterosexualitySexuality]]
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