CriticaLink | Freud: On Narcissism | Terms

The dynamic processes of the mind operate by way of images generated in the id and the superego that are presented to the ego. (Recalling dreams gives us perhaps the clearest picture of what these representations are like.) Imago is the Latin word for image that Freud, and later Lacan, sometimes use for these mental representations. The ideal ego is the example of an imago that Freud discusses in "On Narcissism".

Compare Lacan's use of imago.

• Adler, Alfred
• Bleuler, Eugen
• Busch, Wilhelm
• Ferenczi, Sándor
• Heine, Heinrich
• Jung, Carl Gustav
• Kraepelin, Emil

• anaclitic object choice
• anxiety neurosis
• cathexis
• Cogito
• dementia praecox
• erotogenicity
• hypochondria
• hysteria
• idealization
• imago
• instinct
• introversion
• libido
• narcissism
• narcissistic object choice
• neurasthenia
• neurosis
• Oedipus complex
• paraphrenia
• primary narcissism
• retrogression
• schizophrenia
• sublimation
• superego
• transference neuroses
• Umwelt
• vicissitude