Lacan theory

Jacques Lacan theory

Lacan's theory is that we are born into a condition of 'lack' and this means we spend the rest of our lives trying to overcome it. Lacan thinks that  what you desire or 'lack' is forever out of reach and it you fulfil that lack, its never enough and you desire to get reach for something else. Lacan argues that there are three stages of this theory. This first being the 'Mirror stage', the second 'fort-da' game and the third is 'Oedipus complex'. Symbolic....

The Mirror stage is the first part of the three stages within Lacan theory's, this is where the infant looks in the mirror. Lacan say that we are all born prematurely and it takes time to be able to movement and to be able to control our movements. The infant will form an identification with the image in the mirror. Lacan saying that this is showing the control and coordination that the infant doesn't have yet and so it showing themselves as they are now and what they are going to become. This is linking back to Lacan theory of lack as will will look at ourselves to see what we desire and what we lack and we will try to get achieve it but it isn't achievable.

The second stage is 'fort-da' game. This was originally named by Freud and was about a child coming to team with its mother's absence. Lacan  saw this and thinks it as a representation of the child beginning to enter the Symbolic and particular a child being introduce to language. giving the child the meaning between meaning and being.