Introducing Lacan

Ego and alienation
Lacan shows how this alienation in the image corresponds with the ego: the ego is constituted by an alienating identification, based on an initial lack of completeness in the body and nervous system.

If the ego is the seat of narcissism and if narcissism does not exist from the start of life, what must happen for narcissism to emerge

Lacan made his first intervention at the annual Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, held at Marienbad, in 1936. He developed the thesis of the “mirror phase”.

Freud’s student Hans Sachs

Lacan a particular interest in the study of paranoia

adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the structure of Spinoza’s Ethics, a text which would always remain dear to him

For example, the motifs of mirrored images, telepathic communication, observation and external persecution so common in paranoia may be understood as fundamental building blocks in the constitution of the ego

the ego is constituted by an alienating identification, based on an initial lack of completeness in the body and nervous system