Lacan The Mirror Stage
“The mirror stage is a drama whose internal pressure pushes precipitously from insufficiency to anticipation—and, for the subject caught up in the lure of spatial identification, turns out fantasies that proceed from a fragmented image of the body to what I will call an “orthopedic” form of its totality—and to the finally donned armor of an alienating identity that will mark his entire mental development with its rigid structure.”
This is where Lacan gave out a brief explanation of the mirror stage. He discussed the changes of ego during this stage. He proposed his understanding of the body's alternation during the mirror stage. In my knowledge, the mirror stage is where a self-recognition begins to form. The body notices a difference and is fascinated by the mirror's depictions. Just like Lacan started, it is an establishment between the organism and its reality—between the Innenwelt and the Umwelt. What he meant by the fragmentation of the body is a clear division conscious to a body that is currently in the mirror stage, noticing the difference and accepting the difference—an action of idiohypnotism. He used this phenomenon to define the schizoid and spasmodic symptoms he stated later in the passage. The fragmentation, which leads to alienation, is a fundamental understanding of the symptoms. However, the alienation of the mirror stage is constructed on the base of an unmatured body of an infant. Lacan stated that the mirror stage is the foremost staged understanding of the ego a person is going through. The disintegration of self leads to the loss of ego but eventually wake up noticing the reality. The ignorant of a body is the premise of the lure from the mirror. The distorted circle of Innewelt and Umwelt, stated by Lacan, is a beginning stage where we, as humans, know the tangible or intangible mirror placed in front of us. By that, the mirror-image, imago, and the body correspond with Sigmund Freud's ego, id, and superego theory.
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