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The [[mirror stage]] 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).
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"The mirror stage as formative of the function fo the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience" is an essay about the formation of identity, the moment of constitution of the self.
