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February. 20. 2012. 04:40 pm 19 notes
lajouissance: Jacques Lacan High-res

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January. 15. 2012. 11:31 am
When four months old, he showed in an unmistakable manner that he liked to hear the pianoforte played; so that here apparently was the earliest sign of an æsthetic feeling, unless the attraction of bright colours, which was exhibited much earlier, may be so considered.
Classics in the History of Psychology — Darwin (1877)
January. 15. 2012. 11:31 am
A little later (2 years and 7 1/2 months old) I met him [p. 292] coming out of the dining room with his eyes unnaturally bright, and an odd unnatural or affected manner, so that I went into the room to see who was there, and found that he had been taking pounded sugar, which he had been told not to do. As he had never been in any way punished, his odd manner certainly was not due to fear, and I suppose it was pleasurable excitement struggling with conscience.
Classics in the History of Psychology — Darwin (1877)
January. 15. 2012. 10:46 am 1 note
I may add that when a few days under nine months old he associated his own name with his image in the looking-glass, and when called by name would turn towards the glass even when at some distance from it.
January. 15. 2012. 10:28 am 1 note
When four and a half months old, he repeatedly smiled at my image and his own in a mirror, and no doubt mistook them for real objects; but he showed sense in being evidently surprised at my voice coming from behind him. Like all infants he much enjoyed thus looking at himself, and in less than two months perfectly understood that it was [p. 290] an image; for if I made quite silently any odd grimace, he would suddenly turn round to look at me. He was, however, puzzled at the age of seven months, when being out of doors he saw me on the inside of a large plate-glass window, and seemed in doubt whether or not it was an image. Another of my infants, a little girl, when exactly a year old, was not nearly so acute, and seemed quite perplexed at the image of a person in a mirror approaching her from behind. The higher apes which I tried with a small looking-glass behaved differently; they placed their hands behind the glass, and in doing so showed their sense, but far from taking pleasure in looking at themselves they got angry and would look no more.
Classics in the History of Psychology — Darwin (1877)
January. 07. 2012. 03:52 pm 12 notes
the mirror-stage is not simply a moment in development. It also has an exemplary function, because it reveals some of the subject’s relations to his image, in so far as it is the Urbild of the ego.
Jacques Lacan - The topic of the imaginary / Seminar I

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Lacan mirror-stage urbild ego
January. 07. 2012. 03:25 pm 66 notes
one of the things we must guard most against is to understand too much, to understand more than what is in the discourse of the subject. To interpret and to imagine one understands are not at all the same things.
Jacques Lacan - The topic of the imaginary / Seminar I
lacan interpretation understanding
January. 07. 2012. 03:22 pm 12 notes
Commenting on a text is like doing an analysis
Jacques Lacan - The topic of the imaginary / Seminar I

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Lacan analysis comment seminar I
January. 07. 2012. 11:44 am 4 notes

Orders of reality: the Imaginary, the Symbolic, the Real

January. 07. 2012. 11:26 am 6 notes
If the psychoanalyst thinks he knows something, in psychology for example, then that is already the beginning of his loss, for the simple reason that in psychology nobody knows much, except that psychology is itself an error of perspective on the human being.
Jacques Lacan - Seminar I

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