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==Jacques Lacan=====Paper===The [[mirror stage]] (also translated in [[English ]] as '"[[mirror stage|the looking-glass phase']]") was the subject of [[Lacan]]'s first official contribution to [[psychoanalytic theory]], when he propounded the concept to the [[mirror stage|Fourteenth International Psychoanalytical Congress ]] at [[mirror stage|Marienbad ]] in 1936 (the original 1936 paper was never published, but a rewritten version appeared in 1949).
From this point on, the [[mirror stage ]] forms a constant point of reference throughout [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|entire work]].
===Development===While aPRa!.ently apparently quite simple, the concept of the [[mirror stage ]] takes on an ever-increasing 'complexity during the course of [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]], as he takes it up and reworks it in various different contexts.
Whereas in 1936---49, Lacan seems to see it is a [[development|stage]] which can be located at a specific [[time]] in the [[development]] of the [[child]] with a beginning (six months) and an end (eighteen months),<ref>{{E}} p.5</ref> by the end of this period there are already signs that he is broadening the concept.
By the early 1950s [[Lacan's concept ]] no longer regards it simply as a moment in the life of the [[infant]], but sees it as also representing a permanent [[structure]] of [[subjectivity]], the paradigm of the mirror stage [[imaginary]] [[order]]; it is a stadium (as opposed to Wallon's 'mirror teststade'') in which the [[subject]] is far more than a mere experimentpermanently [[captation|caught]] and [[captation|captivated]] by his own [[image]]: the mirror stage represents a fundamental aspect of the structure of subjectivity.
===Ego Formation===The key to this phenomenon lies in [[mirror stage]] describes the prematurity formation of the human baby: at six months, [[ego]] via the baby still lacks coordinationprocess of [[identification]]; the [[ego]] is the result of [[identifying]] with one's own [[specular image]].
In order to resolve this [[aggressivity|aggressive tension]], the [[subject]] [[identifies]] with the [[image]]; this [[identification|primary identification]] with the [[ounterpart]] is what forms the [[ego]]. The moment of [[identification]], when the subject assumes its image as its own, is described by Lacan as a moment of jubilation (E, 1), since it leads to an imaginary sense of mastery: <blockquote>[the child's] joy is due to his imaginary triumph in anticipating a degree of muscular co-ordination which he has not yet actually achieved<ref>{{L}} 1951b. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflections on the Ego]]," ''Int. J. Psycho-Anal.'', Vol. 34, 1953: 15; {{S1}} p. 79</ref></blockquote> However, this jubilation may also be accompanied by a depressive reaction, when the child compares his own precarious sense of mastery with the omnipotence of the mother (.<ref>{{Ec, }} p. 345; {{S4, }} p. 186)</ref> This identification also involves the [[ideal ego]] which functions as a promise of future wholeness which sustains the e~ in anticipation.
TllLmirrnr _st~e shows thatUbe ego ·is the product of misunderstanding (meconnaissanceJj and the site where ~e subject becomes alienated froIE: himself It §presents the introduction- of the subject into the imaginary order.
However, Ithe the [[mirror stage ]] also has an important symbolic dimensioE The symbolic otcrer is present in the figure of the adult who is carrying or supporting the [[infant]].
The moment after the [[subject ]] has jubilantly assumed his [[image ]] as his own, he turns his head round towards this adult, who represents the [[big Other]], as if to call on him to ratify this [[image ]] (Lacan, 1962-3: seminar of 28 November 1962).
===Narcissism===The [[mirror stage ]] is also closely related to [[narcissism]], as the story of [[Narcissus ]] clearly shows (in the Greek myth, [[Narcissus ]] falls in [[love ]] with his own reflection).