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==Jacques Lacan==
The concept of the "[[fragmented body]]" is developed by [[Jacques Lacan]] in the context of the [[mirror stage]].
==Critical Dictionary==
In his early paper on the [[mirror stage]] (1949), [[Lacan]] refers to the ''[[imago]]'' of the [[fragmented body]] as an [[image]] of [[castration]] which expresses the [[subject]]'s [[feeling]] that the [[body]] [[lack]]s any substantial [[unity]].
The resultant [[anxiety]] stimulates the [[subject]]'s [[identification]] with the complete [[image]] in the [[mirror]], but the [[fragmented body]] always poses a [[threat]] to its [[unity]].
According to [[Lacan]], the ''[[imago]]'' of the [[fragmented body]] reappears when the [[analysis]] touches upon or provokes the [[aggressivity]] of the [[analysand]].
==Surrealism==
The [[image]] of the [[fragmented body]] does not derive from [[Freud]].
[[Lacan]] himself compares it to the [[hallucination|hallucinatory]] [[image|imagery]] of Hieronymus Bosch.
It has been suggested that [[Lacan]]'s ''[[imago]]'' is influenced by Hans Bellmer's [[photograph|photographs]] of a dismembered and rearranged doll.<ref>Bowie, Malcolm. ''Lacan''. London: Fontana, 1991.</ref>
They are inspired by the [[artist]]'s [[sexual]] [[obsession]] with a young girl and appeared in a [[surrealist]] journal to which [[Lacan]] contributed.
This suggestion is therefore highly plausible, and provides a reminder of [[Lacan]]'s debt to [[surrealism]].
fragmented body ([[French]]:''corps morcelé'')
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