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| Reference: The Imaginary Reference information: A central plank of Lacan's theory is the Imaginary, which is likely to be one half of the term you are seeking, but the way I read the text as you give it, this might not be a Lacanian term as a whole, but possibly one coined by the author of the thesis. Anyway, it is worth considering as a thought. 'The Imaginary Lacan thought the relationship between the Ego and the reflected image means that the Ego and the Imaginary order itself are places of radical alienation: "alienation is constitutive of the Imaginary order".[14] This relationship is also narcissistic. So the Imaginary is the field of images and imagination, and deception: the main illusions of this order are synthesis, autonomy, duality, similarity. The Imaginary is structured by the Symbolic order: in The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis Lacan argues how the visual field is structured by symbolic laws. Thus the Imaginary involves a linguistic dimension. If the signifier is the foundation of the Symbolic, the signified and signification are part of the Imaginary order. Language has Symbolic and Imaginary connotations; in its Imaginary aspect, language is the "wall of language" which inverts and distorts the discourse of the Other. On the other hand, the Imaginary is rooted in the subject's relationship with its own body (the image of the body). In Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real Lacan argues that in the sexual plane the Imaginary appears as sexual display and courtship love. Lacan accused major psychoanalytic schools of reducing the practice of psychoanalysis to the Imaginary order by making identification with the analyst the objective of analysis (see Écrits, "The Directions of the Treatment"). He proposes the use of the Symbolic as the way to dislodge the disabling fixations of the Imaginary: the analyst transforms the images into words. "The use of the Symbolic is the only way for the analytic process to cross the plane of identification."[23]' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan#The_Imaginary -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2009-01-08 18:22:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Lacan and psychopathology: [excuse me if you are already aware of all of this, Rod] Freud and Lacan outline the role sexuality plays in psychopathology Sexuality its role in psychopathology according to Freud and Lacan; The relationship between normal and perverse sexuality according to Freud Freud’s account of pathology is based upon symptoms where as Lacan’s is based upon structure. There are two levels to Freud’s symptomology of psychopathology. The first level is at the physical aspect of the symptom. The second deals with the meaning of the symptom. For Lacan on the other had what matters in psychopathology is the structural role sexuality plays. For Lacan psychopathology, in the form of hysteria, is generated by the question “what is to be a women?” For Lacan the symptoms of psychopathology are distinguished from the structure of the patients psychopathology ; the sexual question “what is it to be a woman?”. Sexuality in Lacan’s structural model is manifested in hysterical identification; where by the patient takes over another’s desire by identifying with the other on condition that the patient is not the object of that desire. More specific the patents desire is to be that lack in the other that generates the others desire. This lack is centered around the phallus. http://tripatlas.com/Psychopathology -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2009-01-08 18:24:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I presume the term you are looking for relates to that 'hysterical identification' of the patient's imaginary. |
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