Judy Groves

Freud’s student Hans Sachs

Lacan made his first intervention at the annual Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, held at Marienbad, in 1936. He developed the thesis of the “mirror phase”.

Ego and alienation
Lacan shows how this alienation in the image corresponds with the ego: the ego is constituted by an alienating identification, based on an initial lack of completeness in the body and nervous system.

If the ego is the seat of narcissism and if narcissism does not exist from the start of life, what must happen for narcissism to emerge