Jacques Lacan Credit to my student Anabel Rojas

Jacques Lacan Credit to my student: Anabel Rojas English 102 Fall 2016 Prof. K. Yegoryan

Jacques Lacan April 13, 1901 -September 9, 1981 Paris, France French Psychoanalyst Psychiatrist Influenced by Freud’s Theories on Psychoanalysis, and Saussure’s Structuralism

Jacques Lacan Influence on Literature by concentrating on the unconscious desire within the text. Lacan suggested that the unconscious is structured like language the unconscious is a source of real truth

Jacques Lacan Belief that the human psyche is divided into 3 main structures that control our lives and desires The Real The Imaginary Order The Symbolic Order

Jacques Lacan The Real the closest we are to the real is before language we are in a state of fullness, completeness a state of nature from which we have been forever broken off by our entrance into language a state of need our entrance into language marks the separation from the real

Jacques Lacan The Imaginary Order The fundamental narcissism by which the human subject creates fantasy images of both himself and his ideal object of desire We start to make representations of how the world works we create scenarios, goals, and ideologies which help us cope with the loss we experience during the “Real Stage” marks the movement from need to demand corresponds to mirror stage

Jacques Lacan Mirror Stage Child’s identification with his own image happens between 6 -18 months of age this marks the first recognition of one’s self as I, at a point before entering language the child realizes he is no longer the mother but someone else depression and anxiety sets in we start to look for our identity we start to mirror someone we wish to become as an adult ex: father, mother, idol

Jacques Lacan Symbolic Order Language and narrative Once a child enters language and accepts the rules of society, it is able to deal with others acceptance of the Name-of-the-Father Rules and restrictions that control both your desire and the rules of communication

Jacques Lacan When we suffer the loss of identity during the Real stage we will never fill our void. The loss that we experience during the Real stage will haunt us forever. We will always seek more to fill the void. For example, the basketball player will always seek to practice to become a better player, even when success is achieved. Humans are always in search of identity after the loss of it during the “Real Stage” when we learn language.