Lacan: The Mirror Stage

photo of sylvia bataille and her daughter with lacan, shortly after publishing The Mirror Stage: an infant encounters its reflection and experiences its first notion of "I" but only through an image that is inherently outside of it. the self is formed through misrecognition. to learn something is to perform it ; to see yourself doing That Thing in order to become That Person who does That Thing. doing is being is seeing is performing is watching is learning is–

suggested reading and unsolicited namesake explanation. personally formative text, obviously.

“In the 1950s Jacques Lacan developed a set-up with a concave mirror and a plane mirror, based on which he described the nature of human identification.”