FIST 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mirror Stage, Transcendental Idealism, Jacques Lacan
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Formation of the mental representation of the i as a subject. The infant identifies with his or her own reflection in the mirror as an ideal ego. The mirror image is apparently a united existence while the infant is a fragmented existence. Mirror stage applies in apparatus theory baudry and metz. The cinematic apparatus placed the audience in a situation similar to the mirror stage of development. Baudry: the arrangement of the different elementsreconstructs the situation necessary to the release of the mirror stage discovered by lacan. To identify without mirror image as i , we must be aware of our own gave which established this relationship, so we come to understand ourselves as subjects to be gazed at. Elsaesser: when identifying with our ideal ego we are being subjected to the face of the other , not by having internalized an other.