LACANIAN THEORY

LACANIAN THEORY:-

Lacan is a non-traditional psychoanalyst. His work is branded as an abstract often ambiguous and almost difficult to understand. He claims that writing about human psyche is unconscious should be ambiguous and difficult to understand. It is the study of human mind and its periphery .i.e. conscious, unconscious and sub-conscious. Because any text is the product of unconscious\, sins it is the nerosis. Nerosis is not a disease but the part of creativity and the development of human civilizations.

For Lacan, text is a linguistic structure and has it’s own psyche and hence the unconscious is structured like a language. Since, Lacan privilege signifier over the signified. He focuses on language to externality.

Lacan talks about three orders of human experience; imaginary experience which is metaphor, sensuous. The second order is symbolic or commonly termed as the name of the father (symbolic or post oedipal which is rational or coherent conclusion). And the real is reminder which is beyond language fullness and completeness. Where there is no language there is no matter of satisfaction. It si the realm of no loss, no lack, there is only need and satisfaction of need of what the body wants. So, language is out of the matter. But once the baby enters into language the real is lost irrecoverable.

Imaginary has an empirical (where knowledge comes sensory base) base in the mirror stage. In his theory of mirror stage, Lacan talks about how ego is created. The infant, while in the stage of helpless and incardination, experiences and imaginary state of masterly and bodily unity. There is the child’s imaginary identification its reflection. Infantile fantasy occurs. Self is created through a label of fantasy in the mirror stage. This is imaginary for Lacan. The child’s entry into symbolic order breaks this imaginary unity. Symbolic order breaks the imaginary unity. Symbolic is a split between the conscious and unconscious knowledge.

Further, he elaborates his ideas into the mirror stage, (secular) is child discovering of image where the idea of subjectivity and alienation or self, other (both) evolves. Imaginary Involves child’s dualistic relation with the mirror. Sometimes before the age of 18 months, infant recognizes its own image in a mirror. It is a prelinguistic identification of selfhood; that image is mind. It is a Narcistic (Greek methodology, a king named Ncrcist) act of imagination constituted by premodial lack. A body within the world distinct from the body, i.e. me. It is a self creating self. Mirror, by creating child, ability to recognize his own image implies a possibility of certain objectivity. It can lead to the constituting other as well as subject and object. The image of the mirror illustrates our recognizing and creating ourselves through the image of others. We recognize our difference from others. The mirror stage begins with the process of misrecognition; subject as lack within the domain of desire of the other. It constitutes the formation of an “I” concept, the ego within the realm of the imaginary. The subject assumes an image, the subject becomes an object.