Is the Mirror Stage a Magic Word?

Lacan: I think this seminar is a, it even starts with the imaginary. He wants to show how those imaginary relations are always hooked in some way on the symbolic. The idea that the ego relation is itself out of joint isn't really capturing the real way in which the subject is alienated from its own ego. And he still has this notion here of full speech that, that what psychoanalysis does is takes the subject from empty speech to full speech - an empty speech would be ego speech.