Eternalised Jacques Lacan in 10 Minutes
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Jan 29, 2021 French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan discusses his notable ideas including the Imaginary, the Symbolic, the Real, and the Mirror Stage, exploring the significance of Freud's discovery of the unconscious and proposing a return to Freud.
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Unconscious Structured Like Language
- Jacques Lacan reinterprets Freud by framing the unconscious as structured like a language made of signifiers and signifieds.
- The ego is an object produced by desire rather than an autonomous subject, reversing classical ego psychology.
Mirror Stage Creates Illusory Wholeness
- The mirror stage shows infants identify with an integrated image, creating an illusory unified ego from a fragmented body experience.
- This misrecognition seeds lifelong alienation, anxiety, and a drive toward an unattainable ideal I.
Imaginary Order Shapes Social Images
- The imaginary order is image-based cognition shaping how we imagine ourselves and others before language mediates social life.
- Imaginary formations are not mere illusions but materially influence real social relationships and behaviors.