
Mirror Stage
Why Theory
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Cinema Through Psychoanalysis
The idea of a mirror identification comes from psychoanalysis and it just gets translated to the cinematic experience. The film theory reading of this essay has perpetuated like they don't think there's really mastery in the gaze, he says. He argues that subjectivity being formed through a lack of mastery is actually primary in what lacon calls "the mirror stage"
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