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Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage”: The Evolution of a Theory |
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Shuli Barzilai |
The essay traces the theoretical shifts in Lacan's thinking about the formation of the subject through reflexive recognition. It also examines the publication history of "The Mirror Stage" and the major resources - including experimental psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and theology - on which Lacan drew in developing his influential theory. In re-orienting the psychoanalytic focus toward the fraternal (specular) function, Lacan's writings not only displace the Freudian concept of Oedipal conflict with the father as the turning point in the constitution of human subjectivity but also challenge the inclination of other theorists such as Melanie Klein to place the mother at the center of the child's world. |
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keywords: Origins of the subject; specular other; identification/alienation; desire of the other; Narcissus and narcissism; maternal and paternal imagos; Lacan’s re-theorization of the Oedipal phase; deferred action (Nachträglichkeit); The Family Complexes; Psychomachia; Ferenczi as precursor-rival of Lacan; Kojève’s reading of Hegel; Wallon’s mirror experiments; Winnicott’s “Mirror-Role of Mother.” |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_barzilai01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Barzilai, Shuli. "Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage”: The Evolution of a Theory" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 041304. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_barzilai01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: June 4, 2004 || Published: November 1, 2004 || Copyright © 2004
Shuli Barzilai |
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Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage”: The Evolution of a Theory
Shuli Barzilai
1. “History Is Not the Past”: Lacan’s Critique of Ferenczi
2. On Chimpanzees and Children in the Looking-Glass: Wallon’s Mirror Experiments and Lacan’s Theory of Reflexive Recognition
3. Topographies of Conflict: The Machia in the Mirror Stage
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