Loved the short and concise explanation on the mirror stage. I'm sure more people will find this interesting. Make a series on Lacanian psychoanalytic terms like The Big Other, Objet a etc.
Phenomenal work as usual! More specifically: I feel like you are describing phenomenological experiences that many need to hear, especially 6:50 "talking your way out of experiencing a moment". I feel like I am reflecting a lot more which is incidentally causing leaders in my professional life to reflect, it's an interesting place to be but I love theory and philosophy and appreciate all of your content Theory & Philosophy, truly!
I've found it helpful to think of the mirror stage as complementary to Deleuze's body without organs. I feel as though the mirror stage is the beginning of a person's consciousness of themselves, and their body, before much socialization has occurred. The BwO is an attempt to rid ourselves of the socialization that happens, thereafter, and return to a stage similar to the mirror stage--a fascinating place we can occupy in our consciousnesses freed from the machinery and systems of society.
The image - identity disparity, reminds me of the mirror vs camera dilemma while taking photos or selfies, why do I look so different here and here... I think that we do have a preconceived, reinforced visual notion of how we look and the saint narcissus circle continues 😂
wow so interesting! So I wonder if I understand: Is social communication in a sense being an object for others? Also when you say that people can talk themselves out of experiencing something, that's interesting, cause if we are objects externally we are always gonna be checking if our inner world is correlating 'correctly,' with the outside world and adjusting our experiences?
THANK YOU!! Reading about Lacan: "Certainly in the field of psychiatry his work is mostly ignored." Do you happen to know why? Is it Freudians in general?
Hey David, when I was listening to this I could not help but think of one of my professors who had done research into cross cultural psychology. Does Lacan think that all cultures do this, because it sounds very Western to me. I don’t mean that to sound bad, individualism is central to Western culture, but I am wondering if there is this focus on pointing out the individual or thinking so much about the individual world seem foreign to Asian culture. I know nothing of Lacan, he was not much discussed in my American university, guessing American being the issue there. But half of my family is Indian and I am very curious because the issues that they deal with are very different from the ones that I dealt with growing up. In some ways that seems painfully obvious, but I guess I would like to question this notion. In a culture where Oedipus was not a foundational story, is there an eponymous complex?
I was drawn to the deceptive nature of language in removing one from oneself. Could you direct me to his work on this please, whether there is one that fits best? Thanks so much for the video.
Thanks a lot for the video. ... But if a 5 year old could nicht identify herself in a mirror , she would have serious problems. I recall a switch from "Paula wants" to "I want" between one and two years old. I think that's also more realistic for the mirror stage. Maybe even earlier.
Definitely appreciate the attempt to demystify or unpack Lacan by not engaging his lexicon but I think at times it might betray the meaning. For instance, the experience of the reflected image by the child is a moment of misrecognition or meconnissance. The child thinks it’s himself in the mirror but the reflected image is the other. And that becomes a kind of metaphor for subjectivity itself - selfhood as such isn’t contained by fragmented bc the subject needs language to speak and understand this “self”. I also think that Lacan was probably dubious of terms like “self” versus subjectivity. Again I realize you’re trying not to use his terminology but at times meaning felt a bit lost. All good. No shade intended. 🙏
the mirror stage is more like to be aware of you as a human being, you acknowledge that you are indeed a human, sentient being. that is it, no need for a 8 mins video
i have a question, what about born blind people or what about humans before the invention of mirrors? where does the mirror stage apply? thanks in advance
Pretty good video, but i think you missed a huge term, which actually is not that complicated, given the descriptions you already made, and that is meconnaisance(idk if thats how to spell it).
I enjoy your videos tremendously but I am not able to get my head around Lacan. An infant is aware of the other from as early 4 to 8 weeks old. He/She knows he/she is not the mother nor the cat nor the sofa which is why the infant uses tactics to manipulate situations to his/her favour. Could it be that Lacan didn't believe any of his own 'earthshattering' concepts but that he concocted them purely for gaining notorioty, fame and fortune?
Connecting psychoanalysis to structuralism in a way that makes language the only subtance of us as individuals and society but also an inevtiebly broken such. Culture is a natural part of humanity, but this culture is also naturally broken. -In conclusion does this not just mean that everything is meaningless but that we literally don’t even exist. We are fakes.
One does not "enter" the real as it were. Also meaning, or the signified, while always has some concrete (imaginary) facet to it, is not filtered by the mirror stage, or the image, or some hybrid cookie cutter formation; why not focus on the imaginary, its place of origin?
you seriously don’t know how much you help me in understanding readings for school!! thank you so much
Need more Lacan!!!
Loved the short and concise explanation on the mirror stage. I'm sure more people will find this interesting. Make a series on Lacanian psychoanalytic terms like The Big Other, Objet a etc.
Phenomenal work as usual! More specifically: I feel like you are describing phenomenological experiences that many need to hear, especially 6:50 "talking your way out of experiencing a moment". I feel like I am reflecting a lot more which is incidentally causing leaders in my professional life to reflect, it's an interesting place to be but I love theory and philosophy and appreciate all of your content Theory & Philosophy, truly!
You’re a G thanks I needed this for my philosophy internal assessment
Thank you so much for such a concise preliminary explanation on this concept.
I've found it helpful to think of the mirror stage as complementary to Deleuze's body without organs. I feel as though the mirror stage is the beginning of a person's consciousness of themselves, and their body, before much socialization has occurred. The BwO is an attempt to rid ourselves of the socialization that happens, thereafter, and return to a stage similar to the mirror stage--a fascinating place we can occupy in our consciousnesses freed from the machinery and systems of society.
Finally Lacan! 😍😎 Thank you.
Could you do videos on the real, imaginary, and symbolic?
this was extremely helpful thank you so much
Your videos are really getting me through my Lit Crit class! Also you have wonderful eyebrows
it would be great to see u try reading some of difference and repetition and contrast its treatment of lacan with that of d&g
Just started the video. Great shirt!
Thank you very much, I love Lacan
Can you explain the relationship between the mirror stage and object petite a?
The image - identity disparity, reminds me of the mirror vs camera dilemma while taking photos or selfies, why do I look so different here and here... I think that we do have a preconceived, reinforced visual notion of how we look and the saint narcissus circle continues 😂
wow so interesting! So I wonder if I understand: Is social communication in a sense being an object for others? Also when you say that people can talk themselves out of experiencing something, that's interesting, cause if we are objects externally we are always gonna be checking if our inner world is correlating 'correctly,' with the outside world and adjusting our experiences?
THANK YOU!! Reading about Lacan: "Certainly in the field of psychiatry his work is mostly ignored." Do you happen to know why? Is it Freudians in general?
Hey David, when I was listening to this I could not help but think of one of my professors who had done research into cross cultural psychology. Does Lacan think that all cultures do this, because it sounds very Western to me. I don’t mean that to sound bad, individualism is central to Western culture, but I am wondering if there is this focus on pointing out the individual or thinking so much about the individual world seem foreign to Asian culture. I know nothing of Lacan, he was not much discussed in my American university, guessing American being the issue there. But half of my family is Indian and I am very curious because the issues that they deal with are very different from the ones that I dealt with growing up. In some ways that seems painfully obvious, but I guess I would like to question this notion. In a culture where Oedipus was not a foundational story, is there an eponymous complex?
I'm wondering this, too. How applicable is the mirror stage across culture and across time? Does the concept belong to Eurocentric modernity?
I was drawn to the deceptive nature of language in removing one from oneself. Could you direct me to his work on this please, whether there is one that fits best? Thanks so much for the video.
Thanks a lot for the video. ... But if a 5 year old could nicht identify herself in a mirror , she would have serious problems. I recall a switch from "Paula wants" to "I want" between one and two years old. I think that's also more realistic for the mirror stage. Maybe even earlier.
Yeah, much earlier than 5 years old
Definitely appreciate the attempt to demystify or unpack Lacan by not engaging his lexicon but I think at times it might betray the meaning. For instance, the experience of the reflected image by the child is a moment of misrecognition or meconnissance. The child thinks it’s himself in the mirror but the reflected image is the other. And that becomes a kind of metaphor for subjectivity itself - selfhood as such isn’t contained by fragmented bc the subject needs language to speak and understand this “self”. I also think that Lacan was probably dubious of terms like “self” versus subjectivity. Again I realize you’re trying not to use his terminology but at times meaning felt a bit lost. All good. No shade intended. 🙏
Nice video 👍
Thank you😄
can anyone tell me how to begin reading lacanian psychoanalysis that doesn’t involve actually reading lacan lol
The written is not there to be understood (start with Primary material it’s worth it)
I think introductory stuff has a role. Derek Hook’s channel is reliable and unpretentious.
Maybe Freud
"A Very Brief Introduction to Jacques Lacan" by Stephen Ross, it's a small pdf of 20 pages.
Fink and Zizek
the mirror stage is more like to be aware of you as a human being, you acknowledge that you are indeed a human, sentient being. that is it, no need for a 8 mins video
I think you might need the 8 minute video more than anyone! your explanation here is wrong 😭😭
Nop, dont be an smart ass, dislike for sure, also you are getting bald 😂😂😂😂
Keywords on Fanon’s Socigeny and Decolonization
thanks!!
So what we are isn’t an image. Ok.
Are we just the subjective experience plus whatever programs we come prebuilt with to process said experience?
i have a question, what about born blind people or what about humans before the invention of mirrors? where does the mirror stage apply? thanks in advance
The name is a metaphor, it’s not literally about seeing oneself in a mirror but about grasping how others possibly view you.
Pretty good video, but i think you missed a huge term, which actually is not that complicated, given the descriptions you already made, and that is meconnaisance(idk if thats how to spell it).
Which country this is?
Since you did the Mirror Stage, would you consider covering Khora/chora, the stage before the mirror stage?
I enjoy your videos tremendously but I am not able to get my head around Lacan.
An infant is aware of the other from as early 4 to 8 weeks old.
He/She knows he/she is not the mother nor the cat nor the sofa which is why the infant uses tactics to manipulate situations to his/her favour.
Could it be that Lacan didn't believe any of his own 'earthshattering' concepts but that he concocted them purely for gaining notorioty, fame and fortune?
In what work is this concept worked?
"I think therefore I am"
What is Lacan's main contribution to Critical Theory?
Connecting psychoanalysis to structuralism in a way that makes language the only subtance of us as individuals and society but also an inevtiebly broken such. Culture is a natural part of humanity, but this culture is also naturally broken. -In conclusion does this not just mean that everything is meaningless but that we literally don’t even exist. We are fakes.
It happens in 6 to 18th months
One does not "enter" the real as it were. Also meaning, or the signified, while always has some concrete (imaginary) facet to it, is not filtered by the mirror stage, or the image, or some hybrid cookie cutter formation; why not focus on the imaginary, its place of origin?
More Lacan. More Badiou.
Finally something good. More Lacan, less D&G.
Lol
Hi! What a great video! Just wanted to quickly mention here that the child is usually about 6-18 months old! 🫶🏾
thank you!