...stage as formative of the function of the 1 as revealed in psychoanalytic experience": "We have only to understand the mirror stage as an identification,...takes place in the subject when he assumes an image . . ." (p. 2). Lacan later develops the concept of the look in his discussion "Of the Gaze as Objer...

...reflection is precisely the lack of cohesion with the self. The mirror stage is, according to Lacan, ". . .the transformation that takes place in the subject when he assumes an image."10 This transformation is the production of the primal form of the "I," the "Ideal-I," which...

..."Mitteilungen." 1 8. Lacan describes the identificatory movement of the mirror stage as follows: "We have only to understand the mirror stage as an identification,...takes place in the subject when he assumes an image — whose predestination to this phaseeffect is sufficiently indicated by the use, in analytic theory,...

...identification is quite simply, as Lacan points out, the process of assuming an image. We have only to understand the mirror stage as an identification,...that takes place in the subject when he assumes an image—whose predestination to this phase-effect is sufficiently indicated by the use, in analytic...

...its development. So it happens that there is an "identification" between infant and its reflection "in the full sense that analysis gives to the term:...takes place in the subject when he assumes an image." It is this reflected image of itself, with which the infant identifies, that Lacan understands by the...

...interrelations of the various forms of Charles. On the signature as the mark of absence, see Derrida. the full sense that analysis gives to the term: namely,...takes place in the subject when he assumes an image" (2, Lacan's italics). The ego so formed is for Lacan, as for Proust, a fiction: "But the important...

...36, 53, 54, 67, 68, 69, 85, 96, 131, 132, 135, 169-70, 182, 203, and elsewhere. 22. "We have only to understand the mirror stage as an identification,...takes place in the subject when he assumes an image." Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in the Psychoanalytic...

...experience of jubilation in response to its image — demonstrate, Lacan says, that "the mirror stage [is] an identification, in the full sense that analysis...takes place in the subject when he assumes an image" (Selection 2; emphasis added). Thus, concludes Lacan, the mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust...

...of the modern I of China can be recognized as the drama of revolution that captures what Lacan calls "the transformation that takes place in the subject when he assumes an image." 36 Hence, like desire, identity is powerful only as form; often taken to be self-consciousness in formation,...

...surrounding objects and persons. The child's "jubilant assumption of his specular image," writes Lacan, is "an identification, in the full sense that analysis...takes place in the subject when he assumes an image [imago]" (Ecrits 2). Because this identification far exceeds the child's still-limited motor and sensory...