On Lacan’s Theory Of "the Mirror Stage" And Related Subjects

Jacques Lacan was a master in the area of psychoanalytic theory, and one of thekey figures in the history of Contemporary Humanities and Social Sciences. Althoughhe didn’t ever consider himself as a philosopher, the texture of profound philosophy isstill clearly felt in the mirror stage theory and related subjects, and in his humandesires and self attention. This is because of the inseparable connection between histheory of subjects and philosophy.Specifically,surrealism,structural linguistics and anthropology have an influenceon Lacan’s theory. However, he is not simply inheriting the mentioned academictrends,but serving his own theory in a subversive, appropriated, non-general inheritingand shifting way. In many theories,the inheritance and re-writing of Freud’s theoryand creative absorption of Hegel’s dialectic of master and slave can be regarded as thetwo major philosophical approaches to Lacan’s theory.Lacan’s mirror stage is not only an important theoretical weapon in constructingtheir own subjectivity, but also the only path to Lacan’s self-constituency, which itselfhas a very powerful sense of independence. In Lacan’s own words, the mirror stage isa drama. It could be considered that Individual’s watching the mirror as a completemisconception of self-identity and a portrait of the show, there, intertwining myths ofspace and dialectic of time leads the subject to a desire-searching road of no return.Mirror stage was then called a device which is a machine producing divisive ego ofsubjectivity, it’s bridging the original sense of helplessness and broken at the sametime implanting a seed of alienation.Movie then is a perfect form to show this device, it reflects Lacan’s theory ofsubject into reality or films with a glimpse of the alienation of the subject beingwitnessed, and when we are fortunate enough to be able to jump out of the stereotypeof individual alienation, the screen provides us a perfect entrance to explain thisphenomenon.