1 My discussion is mainly indebted to Jane Gallop's "Where to Begin? When a monster succeeds on their quests typically a monster would gloat and boast, proud despite all the evil things they have done.…, Piaget believed that children naturally attempt to understand what they do not know. Previously, however, Lacan still tended to envisage a life cycle whose progress could be tracked and precisely relived. Freud himself never formulated a definitive and summary theory of Nachtr”glichkeit. "Like almost every innovation," Ferenczi begins his essay "Further Development of an Active Therapy" (1921), "'activity' on closer inspection is found to be an old acquaintance. 8 Lacan associates the image with Freud's ego-ideal, calling it the Ideal-I. Distracted and consumed by love for his own image, the beautiful youth pines away in (ec)static and stagnant self-contemplation. 11 Lacan refers to psychoanalysis as a "conjectural science" on several occasions; see, e.g., Šcrits, 472, 863. After Victors decision to hunt down his creation in revenge, resulting in Victors death, the creature returns and shows his true colors. In a letter circulated among the "Committee" after the publication of The Development of Psychoanalysis in early 1924, Freud began to withdraw his approval and gave vent to "certain misgivings": "There are certainly many dangers attaching to this departure from our 'classical technique' as Ferenczi called it in Vienna. Be that as it may, the importance of this concept cannot alone explain Lacan's vituperative attack on Ferenczi's 1913 article. The I formed in and through the specular encounter is not just illusory but radically unstable, split, divided, ex-centric to itself. Ten minutes into the address, Lacan was cut off by Jones. The first stage Freud called it Id: it’s the construct of the personality related to the needs and measure of pleasure related to it. However, Lacan states that the logic of each prisoner is fundamentally flawed, so the deductions of the two prisoners reacting two him must be flawed as well. It is essentially an economic principle to limit a quanta of excitation and is therefore presented by Freud as a principle of constancy or inertia. By Polaris Learning. By introducing the crossroads, a metaphor for radical transition, into the static enclosure of the imaginary dyad, Lacan refuses the restrictions of fictional boundaries (Narcissus's story as distinct from Oedipus's) and of orthodox psychoanalytic terminology. In this respect, it resembles his much-vaunted "return" to Freud. In the other instance, the word "moment" suggests a trans- or atemporal structure of the psyche--stade as stadium. Not only has the theoretical focus shifted from the orderly procession of phases to the overlapping of mind-time. He pointedly opens his 1949 essay on the mirror stage with a declaration of opposition to "any philosophy issuing from the Cogito." This early childhood event, however remarkable or startling (saisissant), might appear to be arbitrarily singled out and privileged in Lacan's writings. Freud was nonetheless inclined at first to welcome the proposals of Rank and Ferenczi, who showed him their work in progress: "The fresh daredevil initiative of your joint draft is really gratifying" (Freud to Rank, letter dated 8 September 1922; quoted in Gay, Freud: A Life, 472). This idea of "rearrangement" or retranscription of the past has numerous implications, both clinical and theoretical, in Freud's writings. This causes Victor to become furious with the monster, when the monster proposes that Victor create a female companion for himself, Victor follows the demand but quickly destroys it because he doesn’t know what could come about from her…, Rather than capitulating with the Creature’s demands, Frankenstein provokes the Creature in search of his own emotional fulfillment. Similarly, when Lacan presented the mirror-stage theory to the British Psycho-Analytical Society, he specified "an essential libidinal relationship with the body-image": "[T]he child seems to be in endless ecstasy when it sees that movements in the mirror correspond to its own movements" ("Some Reflections," 14). He envisions the ego whose formation is precipitated by the visual image of the counterpart in terms of a negativity derived from KojËve's reading of Hegel: "The dialectic which supports our experience ... obliges us to understand the ego as being constituted from top to bottom within the movement of progressive alienation in which self-consciousness is constituted in Hegel's phenomenology" (Šcrits, 374; trans. The influences of nature (e.g., genetics) and nurture (… As noted in Chapter 4, Lacan's familiarity with the work of Hegel, and particularly with The Phenomenology of Spirit, was mediated by KojËve's lectures at the Šcole des Hautes-Študes in the 1930s. In the excerpt just quoted, Lacan does not simply alter the semantic principle ("Christ") through substitution ("signifier") but also revises the syntactical functioning of the genitive. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. After the inconclusive battle is over ("'It was a glorious victory, wasn't it?' "Hegel speculated," Lacan writes in Les complexes familiaux, "that the individual who does not fight to be recognized outside the family group will never attain autonomy before death" (34/16). Lacan's reticence about his past, particularly his childhood and familial ancestry, contrasts with Freud's many autobiographical reminiscences and anecdotes. Thus, "to say of psychoanalysis or of history" that they both are "sciences of the particular, does not mean ... that their ultimate value is reducible to the brute aspect of the trauma" (260-61 / 51). Broadly defined by Michael Balint, active therapy required "abandoning the sympathetic passive objectivity [of the analyst] by responding to something in the patient in a specific way." The animal, as opposed to the human infant, cannot grasp the relation between the virtual image seen in the mirror and the reality outside. Significant though this aspect may well be, I would propose that the second point of divergence discussed below is the more fundamental to Lacan's conception of subject formation. Whether the mirror stage is universally formative of the I-function or not, it would certainly seem to have been so in the case of Lacan. There are three stages of prenatal development: germinal, embryonic, and fetal periods. Lacan has a more complicated mirror in mind. For "its essential being," Hegel writes, "is present to it in the form of an 'other,' [and] it is outside of itself and must rid itself of its self-externality." ... Can one really see these as mere figures of speech when it is the figures themselves that are the active principle of the rhetoric of the discourse that the analysand in fact utters?" Following Les complexes familiaux, the 1949 essay on the mirror stage is foremost among the places, in a manner of speaking, where Lacan deliberately crosses the father of psychoanalysis and goes his own way. Clearly, he appreciates Ferenczi's risk-taking methods and intellectual enterprise. Reflexive recognition displaces the Oedipal conflict as the linchpin or turning point in the constitution of the subject. By physically handling objects young children discover that relationships exist between them. Nevertheless, Lacan insists on Ferenczi as the principal perpetrator. The celebratory sense of the I is a function of the formal constellation of parts in the mirror. The term "affective dynamism" in this passage should be glossed by the "triumphant jubilation" frequently associated with the child's identification of the image: "[W]hat demonstrates [sic] the phenomenon of recognition, which involves subjectivity, are the signs of triumphant jubilation and playful discovery that characterize, from the sixth month, the child's encounter with his image in the mirror" (Šcrits, 112 / 18). Lacan's concept of the mirror stage was strongly inspired by earlier work by psychologist Henri Wallon, who speculated based on observations of animals and humans responding to their reflections in mirrors. Thus, the mirror stage presages (the genetic view) or, alternatively, presents (the structural view) through dramatic exemplification "a certain level of rupture ... between man's organization and his Umwelt," that is, between inwardly lived and external realities (111 / 17). In "Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" (1953), the manifesto more familiarly known as the "Rome Discourse," Lacan reiterates: "The point is that for Freud it is not a question of biological memory"; rather, it is "a question of recollection, that is, of history, balancing the scales, in which conjectures about the past are balanced against promises of the future." But to exclude the diachronic dimension of Lacan's work would seem to counterman his own instructions. Both Michael Eigen, in a comparison of Winnicott and Lacan, and Roudinesco, in a more recent comparison of Wallon and Lacan, comment on the negativistic aspect of the Lacanian vision (Eigen, 421-22; Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co., 143). ... Cf. Present time, as well as recollected time or history, "implies all sorts of presences," including "[i]n Heideggerian language ... types of recollection [that] constitute the subject as gewesed--that is to say, as being the one who thus has been" (Šcrits, 255 / 47). Piaget stages of development are the foundation of a well-known theory of early childhood development. We are going to spend a little bit of time looking at the three stages of Training, Development and Competence. Pontalis observe, "Psycho-analysis is often rebuked for its alleged reduction of all human actions and desires to the level of the infantile past. First and foremost, identification with the semblable, or self-same, prepares the way for identification with the figure of the father. 12 See "From Love to the Libido" in Seminar XI: "Whenever the membranes of the egg in which the foetus emerges on its way to becoming a new-born are broken, imagine for a moment ... that one can do it with an egg as easily as with a man, namely the hommelette" (qu'on peut faire avec un oeuf aussi bien qu'un homme, ý savoir l'hommelette) (179 / 197). 12 This notion of existence may be aligned with the opening statement of Bruce Fink's Lacanian Subject: "Unlike most poststructuralists, who seek to deconstruct and dispel the very notion of the human subject, Lacan the psychoanalyst finds the concept of subjectivity indispensable and explores what it means to be a subject" (xi). (Heidegger, 373). According to Lacan, the mirror stage therefore can, and often does, lead from the "specular I" to the "social I" (Šcrits, 93 / 1, 98 / 5). Rather, Lacan repeatedly evokes the signifying chain in its constraining and subjugating effects. The six stages of lifespan development are: infancy, childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age and older age. Four months after presenting his report to the Rome Congress, Lacan returns to the concept of deferred action in his seminar on Freud's psychoanalytic technique. In the very act of second placing or preempting the Oedipus complex, Lacan corroborates the validity of the Freudian insight. The bitter warring over Lacan's "short sessions" in the 1950s and 1960s paralleled the reactions that Ferenczi's therapeutic activities aroused in the 1920s.10. In keeping with this domain of law and truth, Lacan concludes "Of Our Antecedents" with the acknowledgment that he finds himself placing the early texts now collected in Šcrits in a "future anterior": "they will have preceded our insertion of the unconscious into language [ils auront dČvancČ notre insertion de l'inconscient dans le langage]" (71). According to Lacan, Freud extricated himself as best he could from the embarrassment caused by his disciple and, in time, came to the correct conclusion that "development is far from being that transparent." Dolto, a clinician specializing in children, took careful and copious notes on that occasion. This passion of the signifier now becomes a new dimension of the human condition in that it is not only man who speaks, but that in man and through man it speaks (Áa parle), that his nature is woven by effects in which is to be found the structure of language, of which he becomes the material. Third, the figure of the adversary is not the sole change in central casting. Lacan explicates that structure through its exhibition by two concrete entities (a child and a mirror) and the situations (recognition-identification-alienation-aggression) he composes around them. Ferenczi likens the opposition between acceptance and rejection of reality to "the positive and negative currents in an electrically inactive body"; Verneinung de-neutralizes these currents and prompts mental activity. As already seen, the intrusion complex of 1938 (which evolves out of the weaning complex and relationship to the maternal image) is not the same as the "startling spectacle" celebrated in 1949. The oscillation between identification/alienation that characterizes the mirror stage replaces the acceptance/refusal of weaning. 21-35). The first can be compared to the divergent inflections of rising and falling tones. This form would have to be called the Ideal-I. Similarly, Lacan contrasts the behavior of the child and the chimp in his 1949 essay: "The child, at an age when he is for a time, however short, outdone by the chimpanzee in instrumental intelligence, can nevertheless already recognize as such his own image in a mirror" (Šcrits, 93 / 1; see also 112 / 18 and 185). In the plot the events are not necessarily presented in sequence but, rather, from a perspective that rearranges them. (262 / 52-53). It also tended to curtail the prolonged dwelling on childhood memories integral to Freud's theory and method. It is also likely that the continual and close study of Freud's texts deepened his understanding of the relevance of Nachtr”glichkeit for his own work. Thus, although it is possible to "include in all this [reflecting activity] the actual mirrors that exist in the house," Winnicott still insists, "[i]t should be understood ... that the actual mirror has significance mainly in its figurative sense" (138). Lacan situates the I (which is largely a function of the eye) in the future of a far from perfect tense. Piaget used terms to describe them. 5 See Derrida, "Le Facteur de la vČritČ" "The Postman or Factor of Truth", in The Post Card; see also "The Purveyor of Truth," in Muller and Richardson, Purloined Poe, for an abbreviated version of this essay. Lacan imagines the future king of Thebes encountering what might be termed a "similiar"; he meets a stranger who is uncannily familiar. The first is where children begin to understand control. But Ferenczi abstains from assuming this position vis-ý-vis Freud. If Wallon's research on the mirror experiences of children and animals is included among the antecedents of Lacan's theory of the mirror stage, the question of beginnings and succession returns in a different guise. The mirror remains a metaphorical concept. In opting for a figural approach, Winnicott is closer to Lacan's views than Lacan is to Wallon's. Their studies demonstrate that visual stimulation links mental and physical processes in these animals; even seeing the reflected image of members of the same species can produce a physiological change. Preyer. If asked, "Where is Mommy?" According to Wallon, the reflected body of the perceiving subject need not be the one to activate the mental integration of model and image. Ferenczi's second (1926) essay on reality compounds the provocation. Hischaracterizations of each of the three registers, as well as of theirrelations with each other, undergo multiple revisions and shifts overthe many years of his labors. Whereas the first phase coincides with early childhood, the second characterizes a psychical tug-of-war, a dialectical tension ranging over the life span of the subject. Book title notwithstanding, their joint venture did not offer an account of the origins of psychoanalytic thought and how it evolved. Unlike the alarming hauteur (and humility) of Walt Whitman's: "Do I contradict myself? He likes him whom he is like. 18, part. The psychoanalytic categories of "libido" and "eros" also become conjoined with the "aggressivity" of the specular encounter. Lacan thereby departs--sets out and also diverges--from another psychoanalytic precedent. Freud must be credited with giving precedence to the retroactive mode over the seeming chronometric certitude of reliving. Describe Lacans three stages of development and their significance in relation to Freud’s developmental stages. Abraham surveys the three main phases of libidinal organization (oral, anal-sadistic, and genital), as well as the child's evolving ambivalent attitudes during each phase (see, e.g., 452-53, 496), within an overall framework that corresponds to Lacan's sequence of three complexes and dialectical differentiations in 1938. Lacan's first official contribution to psychoanalysis was The Mirror Stage. The primordial ambivalence or "basic tension" provoked during weaning persists and presides over all later stages of psychical differentiation (27 / 14). Lacan does not revise or "return" to his own texts. Similarly, John Forrester endorses the plausibility of the claim that "Abraham was the theoretical mainstay of this line of development of psychoanalytic theory" (363 n. 135). The Three Stages of Emotional Development. Macklin Smith: "It seems to me that no 'synthesis' occurs precisely because the poet cannot conceive his culture apart from his God, that his cultural orientation is exclusively Christian" (5; see also 105, 108). "When Freud tells us," Ferenczi interprets, "that a human being ... observes his environment by 'feeling after,' 'handling' and 'tasting' little samples of it, he clearly takes a baby's procedure when it misses and feels after its mother's breast as the prototype for all subsequent thought-processes"; and therefore, his interlocutor need only bring out the function of ambivalence: "We are only tempted to add further that the ambivalence indicated above ... is an absolutely necessary condition for the coming into existence of a concrete idea" ("Problem of Acceptance," 370-71; emphasis added). Chap 3 pp. Doing it "well enough" casts the analyst in the mirror-role of the mother. What I am suggesting is that the tropes of the Christian soul-struggle are interwoven with the other discourses of conflict in his writings. Some inanities circulate like that" (146 / 127). Another word to note here is "conjectures." 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