![]() ![]() ![]() Importantly Lacan suggests that this imaginary unity of the mirror stage produces a retroactive fantasy of a prior stage when our body was still in pieces, a fantasy of a chaotic body, fragmentary and fluid, given over to drives that always threaten to overwhelm us a fantasy that haunts us for the rest of our life – all those pressured moments when one feels about to shatter. For at the very moment that we see our self in the mirror we see this self as image, as other, moreover, it is usually confirmed by another other – the adult in whose presence the recognition is made. This image founds our ego in this infantile moment as imaginary, that is, locked in an identification that is also an alienation. In “The Mirror Stage” Lacan argues that our ego is first formed in primordial apprehension of our body in a mirror (though any reflection will do), an anticipatory image of corporeal unity that as infants we do not yet possess. ![]() There is no simple now: every present is nonsynchronous, a mix of different times thus there is no timely transition between the modern and postmodern. Each epoch dreams the next, as Walter Benjamin once remarked, but in doing so revises the one before it. ![]()
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