Cambridge Companion to Lacan
Preface
Novelty and importance of Lacan:
offered to look at the unconscious not as “a dark dungeon full of libidinal
imps…” but as the “‘discourse of the Other,’ that is, as a systemic social
formation, a hoard of words, names, and sentences out of which collective utterances
are made; this hoard of words also accounts for my own singularity…” (xii).
Lacan was responsible for a
“linguistic turn” in psychoanalysis, as he argued that it is the language which
links body and soul, his object was “speaking id.”
Jean-Michel Rabate, Lacan’t turn to Freud
“The sardine can condensed the light
without which we cannot see anything, while allegorizing the idea of an Other
gaze looking at us when, because we just see objects in our field of
perception, we do not pay attention to the gaze that frames them and us from
outside.” (7)
Quoting Lacan himself: “Freud does
not need to see me (me voir) in order to gaze at me.” (7)
Elisabeth Roudinesco, The Mirror Stage: an Obliterated Archive
Lacan’s overhaul of Freudian thought
about ego: bring “the ego back towards the id to show that it was structured in
stages, by means of imagos borrowed from the other through projective
identifications.” (29)
Mirror stage is “a psychic or
ontological operation through which a human being is made by means of
identification with his fellow-beings.” (29)
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