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Mirror Stage

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The Existential Negativity Is a Product of the Mirror Relation

Lacan: I think that he fine doesn't I to my mind and this is like um like we could start like there's still more to the of the essay to talk about especially vis-a-vis an existential psychoanalysis which he references. He says they encounter that existential negativity that starts term whose reality is so vigorously proclaimed by the contemporary philosophy of being in nothingness. Lacan wants to say no what it's doing is first of all it's creating this imaginary identity and a wholeness through an act of identification right? "It just kind of gobbles up things and turns it into talking it how does he how would he put it"

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