Intrusion Complex
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.164
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > manifest love for sibling repressed hatred for sibling
Theoretical move: By tracing Lacan's early writings on the Papin sisters, Aimée's case, and *Les complexes familiaux*, Fink argues that Lacan's 'fraternal complex' grounds paranoia, homosexuality, and sadomasochism in a primordial narcissistic confusion between self and other (the imaginary double), showing that the persecutor-as-ideal is structurally prior to the symbolic order and operative across multiple clinical structures.
Lacan calls this the 'intrusion complex' and he proposes that it is 'starting from this very stage that one fi rst begins to recognize a rival, that is, an 'other' as an object'