Reading Response 5: Lacan

The Mirror Stage written by Jacques Lacan, demonstrates that a "mirror" is a stage of self development of an individual. He describes it as "a drama whose internal pressure pushes precipitously to anticipation", in other words the writer is portraying that a mirror can cause conflict of self confidence and "formation into history". I was interested in the subject of the spatial identification and body image. To understand this concept of those, or "orthopedic" - as he defines "fantasizes that proceed from a fragment of image body". We need to analyze the idea of one ego and how that is created. According to Lacon, we are only able to develop our ego after we underrated who we are an individual in this world. However, can a person develop an ego without being connected to their body image? He states "the shattering of the Innewelt to Umwelt circle gives rise to an inexhaustible squaring of the ego's audits."which reaches a certain level of aggressive disintegration of an individual.

Lacan's Imago definition is "an image that is seemingly predestined to have an effect at this phase, as witnessed by the use in analytic theory of antiquary's term" helps us see that idealization of an image of a person can influence the person's behavior. The relationship of feelings and image (reflected on the mirror) is strong and dangerous at the same time. As a conclusion one can observe that an ego can come from these two influences.