It will no question ease you to see guide jacques lacan as you such as. Chiasmus, artificial memory, and the arts of arrangement. The mirror stage, continued although jacques lacan can be characterized as a philosopher because his life work was based on reinterpreting the canonical writings of a philosopher, sigmund freud 18561939. These are the sources and citations used to research mirror stage. An introduction to jacques lacans the mirror stage youtube. Analysis of jacque lacan s the mirror stage 1644 words 7 pages. Drawing on work in physiology and animal psychology, lacan proposes that human infants pass through a stage in which an external image of the body reflected.
A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Jacques lacan, the mirrorphase as formative of the function. Pdf is lacans theory of the mirror stage still valid. The imago is the transformation of the subject as he evolves intoreflects image mirrored image. This is why we present the books compilations in this website.
This is intended as an aide for students of literary criticism, to make it easier for them to comprehend a source often considered. Although it may seem strange at first to analyze mary shelleys frankenstein from a psychoanalytic perspective, the founder of psychoanalysis, sigmund freud, and french psychoanalyst jacques lacan theories of the mirror stage and the oedipal complex enable frankenstein to be read as a novel embracing psychoanalytic theories. According to lacan, one can hear the unconscious in repetitions, in the way desire has accommodated itself to the drives. Jacques lacan after world war ii 1 french psychoanalyst jacques lacan 19011981 became a cult hero, a formidable intellectual superstar whose structural psychoanalysis, first in france and later at american elite universities, dominated much of intellectual life. In 1949, lacan presented a new paper on the mirror stage, the mirrorstage, as formative of the i, as revealed in psychoanalytic experience, to the sixteenth ipa congress in zurich. The mirror stage is based on the belief that infants recognize themselves in a mirror literal or other symbolic contraption which induces apperception the turning of oneself into an object that can be viewed by the child from outside themselves from the age of about six months. The mirror stage as formative of the function of the i as revealed in psychoanalytic. This is a summary of the version of lacan s paper presented in the norton anthology of theory and criticism, 2001. Theresa thompson english 7010 spring 2011 jacques lacan. Jacques marie emile lacan april, 1901 to september 9, 1981 was a major figure in parisian intellectual life for much of the twentieth century. Lacans ideas about the formation of the i developed over time in conjunction with his other elaborations of freudian theory. The presence of jacques lacans mirror stage and gaze in. The mirror stage as formative of the function of the i as.
Jacquesmarieemile lacan was a french psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalyt. In order to recognize myself, i have to be separate from my self. According to lacan, the mirror stage is characterized by an identification with the ideali, or a fantasy image of oneself that represents a completeness that the child does not possess but will always strive towards. The only essential texts missing from the edition of the ecrits with only selections are, by my estimation, the essay on poe and the essay on kant and sade. He presented a paper on the mirror stage on august 3, 1936, at a conference of the international psychoanalytical association in marienbad. I think it nevertheless worthwhile to bring it again to your attention, especially today, for the light that it. The mirror stage is based on the belief that infants. Lacan s mirror stage can be understood as an ironic version of this theology. Drawing on work in physiology and animal psychology, lacan proposes that human infants pass through a stage in which an external image of the body reflected in a mirror. In his paper titled mirror stage 1949, lacan expounds the concept of the mirror stage that occurs between 618 months of a childs development, when the child begins to draw rudimentary distinction between the self and the other, as it encounters its image in the mirror. The mirror stage is an identification stage lacan 1949, 344. Apr 22, 2016 home literary criticism lacans concept of mirror stage. Jacques lacan the mirror stage as formative in the. My intention in this article is to evaluate lacan s theory of the mirror stage in accordance with current philosophy of mind theories and findings from the field of psychology.
Since art imitates life, an in depth exploration of the way that these scenes play out can illuminate how lacans abstract theories might look in the real life formation of identity and in malefemale relations. While discussing jacque lacans the mirror stage for the second time this semester i started thinking about my own younger brothers introduction to the mirror a few years ago. This occurrence between the child, the childs reflection and his progression is what lacan calls the mirror stage. Lacans the mirror stage suggests that selfrecognition serves as the cause of human consciousness.
Introduction to jacques lacan, module on psychosexual development. Lacan refers to this conference in the first sentence of the essay. Jacques lacan stages such an adventure in his infamous text, the mirror stage as. Lacans concept of mirror stage literary theory and. Jacque lacan derives the concept of the split by recasting central freudian concepts such as unconsciousness and the compulsion to repeat. The conception of the mirror phase which i introduced at our last congress, years ago, has since become more or less established in the practice of the french group.
The conception of the mirrorphase which i introduced at our last congress, years ago, has since become more or less established in the. Mirror stage and instance of the letter the mirror stage the. Deeply controversial, lacans work has transformed psychoanalysis, both as a theory of the unconscious mind and as a clinical practice. One of many of lacans focal points and references throughout the reading is that of the gestalt theory, which has great relevance in accordance to the mirror stage but also challenges its beliefs. Robert louis stevenson, jacques lacan, rouben mamoulian, strange case. The key observation of lacans essay concerns the behaviour. The selection, authorized by lacan, is necessary reading for anyone concerned with psychoanalysis and its radical effect on all the other human sciences. Like the real, lacan stressed the ongoing nature of the mirror stage throughout our lives as we constantly strive for this ideali. Bookmark file pdf jacques lacan jacques lacan when people should go to the book stores, search commencement by shop, shelf by shelf, it is in reality problematic. Jacques lacan 19011981 the mirror stage as formative of the function of the i as revealed in psychoanalytic experience delivered at the 16th international congress of psychoanalysis, zurich, july 17, 1949 discussion questions 1. This imago is shown in shakespeares play richard ii in act 4 scene 1 where he smashes the mirror, a representation of him losing his kingship which was his ideal self.
What lacan means by the mirror stage english literature essay. Most of the texts date from the 1950s and 1960sa crucial turning point in lacan s development. He has some genuinely good ideas notably the mirror stage, the short session, and the conception of psychoanalysis removed from medicine. Lacans model of the mirror stage allows one to understand the concept of the i in the human psyche and also provides an opposition against decartes famous philosophical statement cogito ergo sum i think therefore i am. Lacan himself made explicit the significance of this statement in his famous dictum. Returning to a tighter focus on the mirror stage proper, lacan, relying on empirical data from the latenineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries, posits that very young children, between the. Mirror stage is indicative of a time in a childs life when i has not been fully formed nor objectified. May 17, 2001 lacan was the vanguard of the french neofreudian lay psychoanalyst movement. The conception of the mirror stage i introduced at our last congress thirteen years ago, having. In this video, i explore the theory behind psychoanalyst jacques lacan s the mirror stage. How are lacan s essays the agency of the letter in the unconscious and the mirror stage as.
Lacans concept of mirror stage literary theory and criticism. Lacan, jacques internet encyclopedia of philosophy. This bibliography was generated on cite this for me on wednesday, may 17, 2017. Lacan, the split between the eye and the gaze annotation by.
Lacans concept of mirror stage by nasrullah mambrol on april 22, 2016 5. Jacques lacan, the mirror stage free download as pdf file. Understanding the mirror stage of lacan english literature essay. The idea of the mirror stage is an important early component in lacan s critical reinterpretation of the work of freud. Jacques lacan and the mirror stage eng 2205 class blog.
Lacans interest in freud and distaste for postfreudian ego psychologists are briefly mentioned, and his clinical work on the mirror stage is discussed in depth. Lacans reinterpretation of freud, with the central focus on language, brought about a poststructuralist turn to psychoanalytic theory. Jacques lacan 190181 is arguably the most important psychoanalyst since sigmund freud 18561939, the originator and founding father of psychoanalysis. Introduction to jacques lacan, module on psychosexual development 2. To stay at this more general metapsychological level for a little while longer, lacan eventually forges, partly on the basis of the mirror stage, a distinction between the ego moi and the subject sujet, a word freighted with philosophical baggagelacan knowingly adds this word and its philosophical vocabulary to analytic discourse. In this video, i explore the theory behind psychoanalyst jacques lacans the mirror stage. Sep 22, 2016 in this video, i explore the theory behind psychoanalyst jacques lacan s the mirror stage.
Lacans article the mirror stage as formative of the i 1936, 1949 lays out the parameters of a doctrine that he never foreswore, and which has subsequently become something of a poststructuralist mantra. Doc summary of lacans the mirror stage as formative of. In this lecture on psychoanalytic criticism, professor paul fry explores the work of jacques lacan. Mar 19, 20 this is best understood when viewed through the lens of jacques lacans theory of the mirror stage. Jacques lacan in dialogue with paul tillich and hannah arendt duration. He states that selfrecognition can occur when a person is as young as six months old and sees his or her reflection in a mirror and experiences in play the relation between the movements assumed in the image and the reflected environment, and between. Engl 300 lecture jacques lacan in theory open yale. Mirror stage psychology bibliographies cite this for me. If we turn to the index at the back of the ecrits that jacquesalain miller has carefully compiled, we find references to the mirror stage stretched.
When the french psychoanalyst and theorist jacques lacan read the news about the sensational murder case of the papin sisters, he was fascinated, and continued to be fascinated, with the way the sisters spoke. Drawing on work in physiology and animal psychology, lacan proposes that human infants pass through a stage in which an external image of the body reflected in a mirror, or represented to the infant through the mother or primary caregiver produces a psychic response that gives rise to the mental representation of an i. Its also essential reading for anyone interested in lacan due to the prevalence of the mirror stage s concepts found throughout his entire oeuvre. In other words, this recognition of the selfs image precedes the entrance into language, after which the subject can understand the place of that image of the self within a larger social order, in which the subject must negotiate his or her relationship with others. Lacan the mirror stage jacques lacan psychoanalysis. The mirror stage as formative in the function of the i as revealed.
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