Subjectivity and Otherness A Philosophical Reading of Lacan
chapter 1 The Subject of the Imaginary (other) ...
1.1 Introduction: The Subject and the Ego Lacan’s first theory of subjectivity, as developed in the years between the publica- t ...
equation between the subject and the ego, to the detriment of the unconscious; in other words, in general, they appeared to unde ...
that Lacan recognizes that the subject’s imaginary identity lies literally outside of himself. It corresponds to a paradoxically ...
the child during the so-called mirror stage: such a primordial experience founds what both Freud and Lacan define as the Ur-Ich, ...
the child comes to confuse with (what turns into) “himself ”; this self/ego has thus to be considered as a passive, mental objec ...
pyramidal system [of babies].”^19 In other words, human babies cannot walk, and are absolutely dependent on adults to carry out ...
dialecticbetween the fragmented body and the unity of the specular image as expe- rienced by the subject that the genesis of the ...
of the dialectic between the subject’s perception of his fragmented body and his parallel vision of the completeness of the spec ...
alienation of his ego—which will nevertheless always remain present in the back- ground—and interact with other subjects through ...
( 2 ) The fact that the subjectqua ego continuously projects his own ideal image— that is to say, his ideal ego—onto the externa ...
Oedipal identification) has a “pacifying function.”^40 The highly sophisticated functioning of this process cannot be described ...
of the Idealich”).^47 For the same reason, it is also correct to maintain that love dis- turbs the symbolic functions of the ego ...
(“desire inthe other”); and (b) a symbolically mediated desire which makes the subject desire the other: he desires that the oth ...
be the case. I believe Lacan is obliged to adopt this position since, here, he is still attempting to reconcile his philosophica ...
limitedly self-conscious—that is to say, the unconsciousqua specific locus of the repressed is only a subset of the un-conscious ...
instincts, even though, as we have seen in the case of the Gestaltic nature of the spec- ular imago,instincts undoubtedly have a ...
image provided either by the mirror or by another human being—from a (mini- mally) extraimaginary jealousy between two subjects ...
stricto sensu(delactation) introduces a new crisis/antithesis (which corresponds to the resolution of the weaning complex—weanin ...
claims: ( 1 ) alllibido (even animal, sexual libido) is narcissistic in essence insofar as it depends on the imaginary function ...
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