(1) He stands apart from the new flight of British composers, u2018who seem very sure of themselves, like an imago , a butterfly that enters the world fully formed.u2019(2) Back here, I briefly mentioned the idea of the imago .(3) To be sure, in both Freudian and Lacanian accounts this scenario establishes the u2018firstu2019 sexual relations: those attached to the imago of the mother and to the autoeroticism associated with narcissism.(4) The imago can become multiradiate at the time of metamorphosis, or it can be 5-rayed at metamorphosis and add the supernumerary rays during post larval growth stages.(5) The 7-rayed imago is approximately 1.5 mm diameter.(6) Lacan's elaboration of the Jungian concept of the imago seems instructive here.(7) They constitute a single set of systematic transfigurations of the Yagwoia transpersonal, archetypal imagos of their Self and its energies.(8) The ego's defence is to split off the aggression and to project it onto parental imagos who in turn threaten to destroy the child.(9) Almost instantly the larvae mutate into full grown imagos and you have yourself an Entopod battalion.(10) After a third larval stage they pupate in the nest material and emerge as imagos after the fledglings have left the nest.
