![]() ![]() Before this, the child does not identify itself as separate from its first carer (usually in Western culture, the mother) for whom it is totally dependent on for its survival. The pleasure is linked to the child’s anticipation of itself as a unified and separate individual. Lacan argued that between the ages of six and eighteen months, infants begin to recognize their mirror image, an experience that brings the child pleasure. ![]() For both Freud and Lacan, the psychic agency of the Ego coincides not with the unconscious subject but refers to the individual’s relation with the image of the ‘similar other’ and with the individual’s own body. The subject’s imaginary dimension was the focus of Lacan’s first theory of subjectivity developed between the early 1930s and the beginning of his 1953 seminar. ![]() The method outlined in the lectures involved a return to the texts of Sigmund Freud and attempted to define and develop the different psychic agencies introduced by Freud – id, ego and superego – beyond the idea of stages through which the human subject passes. As Bracha Ettinger notes these ‘levels of human reality are revealed in language through speech (parole). In two lectures in 1953 Jacques Lacan proposed three orders that he believed to be the key registers of human subjectivity and according to which all psychoanalytical phenomena can be described: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real.
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