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− | Lacan first presented his views on the nature of the ego to the Fourteenth International Psycho-Analytical Congress at Marienbad, July 31, 1936, but failed to submit a written text to be included in the proceedings of the Congress.
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− | Hence the present text, dating from 13 years later, si thef irst full articulation of this important theme that we have.
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− | The mirror stage sheds light on the formation of the I.
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− | The child jubilantly recognizes his own iamge in the mirror from the age of six months, with far-reaching effects on his development.
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− | The mirror image stage is an identification in which the subject is transformed.
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− | This assumption of his iamge by the child precipitates the I in a primordial form, prior to the form's soscial determination.
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− | This form orients the agency of the ego in a "fictional direction," and will remain irreducibly discordant with the subject's own reality.
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− | The preconditions for this spatial captation are man's organiz insuffiency, requiring that his relation to nature be mediated by an image; and man's prematurity at birth.
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− | The process involves the anticipation of bodily maturation in a gestalt which is exterior, of different size, and whose symmetry is reversed, leading to a rigid stucture of the I, alienation, etc.
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− | The ego is not centered on the perception-consciousness sytem or the reality principle, but is characterized by the function of miscognition (mEconnaissance).
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