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Posted by slackyb on Friday, March 09, 12:56 PM
Is anyone here interested in the theories of Jacques Lacan and his followers? For example, is anyone interested in Lacan's notion of the split self or split subject -- that is, the self that is hopelessly fragmented.
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DRomeo wrote on Mar 09, 04:06 PM
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I think some of his linguistic ideas are interesting.
princesstamtam wrote on Mar 10, 10:37 AM
I was always interested in Jacques Lacan, but more so le stade du miroir. Recognizing one self for the first time is one person's definition of what he really meant. I think (?) But I believe that is where is ( as he puts it), we are caught up in the lure of spatial identification, the succession of phantasies that extends from a fragmented body to form an image he calls orthopaedic...I'm hopelessly fragmented at this time so forgive me if my writing is incoherent...but I agree and I join your group with zest....Amie
slackyb wrote on Mar 11, 12:57 PM
The way I understand the mirror stage, it is the stage at which the infant first sees itself as being a separate intentity: something that is separate from the rest of reality. The baby looks in a mirror and, in theory, I guess, sees that its body is in fact separate from everything else around it and in particular separate from the mother. This realization of separation, said Lacan, "spilts" the self from its former sense of unity with everything. The "split self," Lacan argued, spends the rest of its life trying to recovery this lost sense of unity, which Lacan called "loss." No one, he argued, ever recovers from loss. I'm not an expert on Lacan, by any means. But anyway, that's my understanding of the mirror stage. Hope this is helpful and more or less accurate.
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