The Imaginary (or Imaginary Order) is one of three terms in the psychoanalytic perspective of Jacques Lacan, along with the Symbolic and the Real. Each...

up imaginary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Imaginary may refer to: Imaginary (sociology), a concept in sociology The Imaginary (psychoanalysis),...

Studio Ponoc The Imaginary (Sartre) (1940), by Jean-Paul Sartre "The Imaginary" (short story) (1942), by Isaac Asimov The Imaginary (psychoanalysis), contrasted...

in anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and media studies. The roots of the modern concept of the imaginary can be traced back to Jean-Paul...

by the Symbolic, the Imaginary, the Real, and for Lacanians who follow Kristeva, the Semiotic. Lacan's first official contribution to psychoanalysis was...

position of the person undergoing psychoanalysis. These changes will produce imaginary effects because the Imaginary is structured by the Symbolic. Lacan's...

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques that deal in part with the unconscious mind, and which together form a method of treatment...

super-ego Identification (psychology) Identification with the Aggressor The Imaginary (psychoanalysis) Intellectualization Interpellation (philosophy) Introjection...

Gaslighting Guilt trip Hypnosis The Imaginary (psychoanalysis) Isolation to facilitate abuse Let the Wookiee win Mind control Moving the goalposts Noisy investigation...

in the Technique of Psychoanalysis). In "The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power" (Écrits) Lacan argues that desire is the metonymy...