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=====Sigmund Freud=====[[Freud]] uses the term "[[inversion]]" to designate [[homosexuality]], the [[idea ]] [[being ]] that [[homosexuality]] is the [[inverse]] of [[heterosexuality]].

=====Jacques Lacan==========Early Work=====[[Lacan]] uses the term in this [[sense ]] too in his early works.<ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l'individu. Essai d'analyse d'une fonction en psychologie]]'', [[Paris]]: Navarin, 1984 (1938). p.109</ref>

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}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some reflections on the ego]]," ''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]]''., vol. 34, 1953 (1951b). p.15</ref>

=====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]].

=====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.) ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood]]'', [[SE]] XI, p. 1910c59.</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}}* [[Communication]]* [[Identification]]||* [[Ego]]* [[Specular image]]||* [[homosexualitySchema L]]* [[heterosexualitySexuality]]{{Also}}

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