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Lacan returned to the optical schema in his seminar on <i>[[Transference]]</i> (1960-61), but then the plane mirror shows the effect that the parental Other's look has on the baby's organism. This look allows the baby to [[sense]] its own body, modeled on its specular image. Lacan even gave the Other a role in the formation of primary narcissism. This schema allows for an approach to the [[treatment]] of early psychopathologies prior to the [[mirror stage]] (Laznik-Penot, 1993).
In his seminar on <i>[[Anxiety]]</i> (1962-63), Lacan redesigned the schema in response to a question asked by André Green regarding the relations between the real, [[the imaginary]], and [[the symbolic]] (Figure 3).
This version of the schema presented two [[principle]] modifications:
Lacan used the plane mirror in two different ways. Sometimes it referred to the mirror of [[the mirror stage]], still very much centered on the [[structuring]] [[character]] of the image itself. And sometimes it referred to a mirror without a reflection, that is, a [[representation]] of the Other's [[gaze]]. Indeed, our [[understanding]] of this schema has been modified [[retroactively]] by the introduction of the [[concept]] of the [[big Other]]; nevertheless, it is still most often [[understood]] in its strictly intrapsychic dimension.
Professor of Psychoanalysis at Ghent University Stijn Vanheule has put together a YouTube video demonstrating how the optical illusion of the inverted vase Lacan discusses in Seminar I works.
==See Also==
# ——. Le Séminaire-Livre IX, L'[[identification]] (1961-62). (unpublished seminar).
# ——. (2004). Le Séminaire-Livre X, L'[[angoisse]] [Anxiety] (1962-1963). [[Paris]]: Seuil.
# Vanheule, Stijn. (2015). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsFv24LaDg Jacques Lacan's double mirror device]. YouTube.
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