I only know Jacques Lacan - the French intellectual and psychoanalyst through his compelling articulation of the “mirror stage”. The mirror stage involves the moment during which the human being first recognizes himself as Self, as Other, possibly even as others see him. This moment marks the true beginning of history for the individual by establishing his separate identity. By establishing the “I,” the individual verifies the context of his personhood (which includes the context of his universe) and provides some form of meaning for experience (read more here).
I always wished I had more time to read his stuff and until yesterday I don’t think I ever saw a video of him (he died in 1981). It surely was a delightful find to see the man in what looks like a practice of a lecture (but it’s not) where he passionately, yet incomprehensibly argues with his friend and enemy - Sigmond fraud about love and the unconscious. A gem.
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