Preoedipal Dimension
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.49
LACANIAN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Theoretical move: Fink maps two fundamental dimensions of psychic life—Imaginary (preoedipal) and Symbolic (Oedipal)—arguing that Oedipalization introduces the unconscious, ambivalence, and qualitative differentiation of others (other/Other), while the L Schema illustrates how the Symbolic interrupts and limits the Imaginary axis.
We need not refer to the preoedipal as a stage, that is, as something that one might 'be going through' and soon 'grow out of.' It might be more helpful to think of it as a dimension: the imaginary dimension.