镜像理论

• The mirror creates fantasies of both a very fragmented body and an alienating identity.
We misbelieve that the image in the mirror is real, so a conflict between the perfect imago (the other) and our imperfect ego occurs.
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Two Extremes during the mirror stage
• 1. affairement jubilatoire (狂喜 忙碌) We are glad with our integrated image. • 2. connaissance paranoiaque (偏执狂认识) We feel depressed with our disintegrated body.
Mirror Stage
Age: infants from 6 to about 18 months
• Definition: In this stage, we literally see ourselves in a mirror. Observing this mirror image permits us to perceive images that have concrete boundaries, allowing us to be aware of ourselves as independent beings who are separate from our mothers. This mirror image of ourselves as a whole and complete being is an ideal, an illusion, for we are not in full control of ourselves.
Effects
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Narcissism, in which the image of one’sΒιβλιοθήκη Baiduown body is sustained by the image of the other, in fact introduces a tension: the other in the image both attracts and rejects me. Narcissism and aggressivity are correlatives .
然而,镜中影像却赋予婴儿一种连贯的、协调一致的身 份认同感,于是,婴儿开始迷恋自己的影像,把自己的影 像当作爱恋倾慕的对象。镜像阶段的自恋不仅表明婴 儿与自己身体的关系,而且建立起一个新的模型:婴儿 与作为“他者”存在的自己的影像建立起认同关系,从 而使这个“他者”成为自己的竞争对手或敌手。
2. Identity crisis: we have been looking for our own identity during the lifetime. self-construction searching for “wholeness”
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