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JACQUES LACAN’S MIRROR STAGE AND THE THREE ORDERS

IMAGINARY IMAGINARY SYMBOLIC REAL


(Pre-Oedipal Phase) (Mirror Stage)
-infant is unable to distinguish Mirror Stage -a linguistic dimension but -not synonymous with reality
itself from its mother’s body or -part of the infant’s development from 6-18 not equivalent to language -exterior to Symbolic
to recognize the lines of months -existence of mutual -no differences or oppositions
demarcation between itself and -infants recognize themselves and their differences (e.g. presence – unlike symbolic, no divisions
objects in the world environment in the mirror (literal) from the absence) -impossible to imagine, to
-a world consisting wholly of age of about 6 months -the domain of culture and integrate into the Symbolic, to
images (hence “imaginary) -conflict bet. subject and image: the child social structures, pre- attain In Lacan’s view, the subject
sees the image in the mirror as a whole, w/c defined social roles and -where words and categories is empty, fluid, and without
contrasts with his lack of body coordination gender differences, the fail an axis or center, and is
(fragmented body) world of objects, and -has to come after the
always recreated with
-the subject identifies with the image, language, morality, law, Symbolic because we will not
leading to the formation of the ego conscience be able to recognize it what exceeds his own
-the ego is a product of misunderstanding -where the Other (language without the binaries that we nature and grasp. For him,
(meconnaissance), a false recognition and law) is inscribed are used to thinking in terms an individual’s relation to
Imaginary -social “I” of
objects is mediated by
-based on the formation of the ego in the
mirror stage desire and struggle.
-the self becomes alienated from itself
through the introduction of the imaginary to
the subject
-realm of surface appearances; the field of
images, imagination
-where the other is inscribed (the other is the
other who is not really the other, but the
counterpart/specular image/specular “I”)

Longing for security and wholeness


Alienation

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