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In psychoanalysis the imago is an unconscious, prototypical image of another person, classically a parent, formed in early childhood and carried forward so that it colours how one later perceives and relates to others. Introduced into analytic theory in the early 20th century (Jung gave the term currency and it passed into wider usage), it names an internal representation rather than an accurate picture of the real person, which is why a patient may respond to a partner or analyst through a parental imago. Laplanche and Pontalis's The Language of Psycho-Analysis defines it as a prototype that organises the subject's way of apprehending others. The referent is a mental schema of a person, unrelated to an insect's adult stage beyond the shared Latin root meaning "image."[1]
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