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==Psychoanalysis==Originally introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[Jung]] in 191111911, the [[Latin ]] term ''[[imago]]'' had already become standard in [[psychoanalytic ]] [[:category:terms|terminology ]] by the [[time ]] [[Lacan]] began [[training]] as a [[psychoanalyst]] in the 1930s.

==Images==The term is clearly related to the term '"[[image]]'", but it is meant to emphasize the [[subjective ]] determination of the [[image]]; in [[other ]] [[words]], it includes [[feelings ]] as well as a [[visual ]] [[representation]].

[[Imago]]s are specifically images [[image]]s of other [[people]].

However, they are not the product of purely personal [[experience ]] but [[universal ]] prototypes which may be actualized in anyone's [[psyche]].

[[Imago]]s act as sterotypes stereotypes influencing the way the [[subject]] relates to other poplepeople, who are perceived through the lens of these various [[imago]]s.

==Complex==The term '"[[imago]]' " occupies a central [[role ]] in [[Lacan]]'s pre-1950 writings, where it is closely related to the term [[complex]].

In 1938, [[Lacan]] [[links ]] each of the [[three ]] [[family complexes complex]]es to a specific [[imago]]: the [[weaning ]] [[complex ]] is liked to the iamgo [[imago]] of the [[maternal ]] [[breast]], the [[intrusion complex ]] to the [[imago ]] of the [[counterpart]], and the [[Oedipus complex ]] to the [[imago ]] of the [[father]].<ref>Lacan. {{1938.}}</ref>

==Psychology==In 1946, [[Lacan]] argues that in formulating the [[concept ]] of the [[imago]], [[psychoanalysis ]] has provided [[psychology ]] with a proper [[object ]] of study and thus set [[psychology ]] on a truly [[scientific ]] footing.

<blockquote>"It is possible.. to designate int eh iamgo in the imago the proper object of psychology, exactly to the same extent that [[Galileo]]'s [[notion ]] of the inert matieral [[material]] poitn formed the basis of phsyics."<ref>{{Ec}}. p.188</ref></blockquote>

==Negative Effects==Whereas for [[Jung]] and [[Klein]] [[imago]]s have equally positive and [[negative ]] effects, In in [[Lacan]]'s [[work ]] they are wighted weighted firmly towards the negative, ebing [[being]] funamentally deceptive and disruptive elements.

[[Lacan ]]speaks of the [[imago]] of the [[fragmented body]], and even [[autonomy|unified imagos ]] [[imago]]s such as the [[specular image]] are mere illusions [[illusion]]s of [[lack|wholeness ]] which introduce an underlyign underlying [[aggressivity]].

<blockquote>"The first effect of the imago which appears in the [[human ]] being is an effect of subjective ''[[alienation]]''.<ref>{{Ec}} p.181</ref></blockquote>

==Jacques Lacan==After 1950 the term '"[[imago]]' " [[disappears ]] almost entirely from [[Lacan]]'s [[theoretical ]] [[:category:concepts|vocabulary]].

However, the basis [[ideas ]] developed aroudn around the term in [[Lacan]]'s pre-1950 writings continue to play an important part in his [[thinking]], being articulated around other [[terms]], principally the term '"[[image]]".'