The Infant's Fascination with the Mirror and the Quest for an Ideal Self

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist sometimes referred to as “the French Freud” and is regarded as an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis. The Imaginary, the Symbolic, the Real and the Mirror Stage are some of Lacan’s most notable ideas.  His teachings explore the significance of Freud’s discovery of the unconscious, proposing a “return to Freud”

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⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (1:48) Lacan & Language (2:55) Register Theory (3:21) Mirror Stage (6:09) The Imaginary (7:18) The Symbolic (8:25) The Real