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(This [[Frnotion]]. ''of the "[[counterpart|specular ego]]" was first developed in the essay, "[[semblableThe Mirror Stage]]'')".

The term "[[counterpart]]" plays an important part in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] from the 1930s on, and designates other [[people ]] in whom the [[subject]] perceives a likeness to himself (principally a [[visual ]] likeness).

The emphasis here is on likeness; the [[intrusion complexchild]] is one of the three "family complxes" which [[Lacanidentification|identifies]] discusses in with his 1938 article siblings on the familybasis of the [[recognition]] of [[bodily]] similarity (which depends, and arises when the child first realizes that he has sinlignsof course, that other subjects ''like him'' participate in on their [[being]] a relatively small age [[difference]] between the family structure[[subject]] and his siblings).

The emphasis here =="Imago of the Counterpart"==It is on likeness; the child identifies with his siblings on this [[identification]] that gives rise to the basis "[[counterpart|imago of the recognition counterpart]]."<ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of bodily similarity (which dependsJacques Lacan|Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l'individu. Essai d'analyse d'une fonction en psychologie]]'', of course[[Paris]]: Navarin, on their being a relatively small age difference between the subject and his siblings)1984. p.35-9</ref>

It The [[imago]] of the [[counterpart]] is this interchangeable with the [[image]] of the [[identificationsubject]] 's own [[body]], the [[specular image]] with which the [[subject]] [[identifies]] in the [[mirror stage]], leading to the [[formation]] of the [[ego]].  ==Formation of the Ego==This interchangeability is evident in such phenomena as [[transitivism]], and illustrates the way that gives rise to the "imago [[subject]] constitutes his [[object]]s on the basis of his [[ego]].  The [[image]] of [[another]] person's [[body]] can only be [[identified]] with insofar as it is perceived as similar to one's own [[body]], and conversely the [[counterpart]] is only recognised as a [[separate]], [[identifiable]] [[ego]] by [[projection|projecting]] one's own [[ego]] onto him."<ref>Lacan, 1938: 35-9</ref>

=="Littler Other"==In 1955 [[Lacan]] introduces a [[distinction]] between the "[[big Other]]" and the "[[little other]]" --or the "[[imaginary other]]" -- reserving the latter term for the [[counterpart]] and/or [[specular image]].

The [[imago]] of the [[counterpart]] is interchangeable with the [[imagelittle other]] of the because it is not truly [[subjectother]]'s own [[body]], at all; it is not the radical [[specular imagealterity]] with which represented by the [[subjectOther]] [[identifies]] in , but the [[mirror stageother]], leading insofar as he is similar to the [[formation]] of the [[ego]].

This interchangeability is evident in such phenomena as ==See Also=={{See}}* [[transitivismComplex]], and illustrates the way that the * [[subjectEgo]] constitutes his ||* [[objectIdentification]]s on the basis of his * [[egoImago]]. ||* [[Mirror stage]]* [[Other]]||* [[Projection]]* [[Specular image]]||* [[Structure]]* [[Subject]]{{Also}}

In 1955 [[LacanCategory:Psychoanalysis]] introduces a distinction between 'the [[big OtherCategory:Jacques Lacan]]' and 'the [[little otherCategory:Dictionary]]' (or 'the [[imaginary otherCategory:Imaginary]]'), reserving the latter term for the [[counterpartCategory:Concepts]] and/or [[specular imageCategory:Terms]]. {{OK}}