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[[Mastery]] of one's motor functions and an entry into the [[human]] [[world]] of [[space]] and movement is thus at the prince of a fundamental [[alienation]]. [[Lacan]] calls the [[register]] in which this [[identification]] takes place "[[the imaginary]]", emphasizing the importance of the [[visual field]] and the [[specular relation]] which underlies the [[child]]'s [[captivation]] in the [[image]].
=====EditEgo and alienation=====[[Lacan]] shows how this [[alienation]] in the [[image]] corresponds with the [[ego]: ''the [[ego]] is constituted by an [[alienating]] [[identification]], based on an initial [[lack]] of [[completeness]] in the [[body]] and nervous system.
[[Lacan]]'s thesis provided a response to the question posed by [[Freud]] in his famous 1914 paper on [[Narcissism]]. If the [[ego]] is the seat of [[narcissism]] and if [[narcissism]] does not exist from the start of life, what must happen for [[narcissism]] to emerge? Some "new psychical action" must take place to constitute the [[ego]], but [[Freud]] didn't say what it was. With the [[mirror phase]], [[Lacan]] had found an answer.
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