The Mirror Phase: How We Construct Our Sense of Self
Mirror Phase: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Self-Identity The concept of the ‘mirror phase’ is an influential concept in psychoanalysis, first proposed by Jacques Lacan in his 1949 essay ‘The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I’ (Lacan, 1949). In this paper, Lacan argued that the ‘mirror phase’ is an essential developmental stage […]