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Psychoanalysis: Lacan - Coggle Diagram

- - - - initiated by the mirror stage
        
        revolves around the child-mother relationship (cf ecriture feminine)
    - - ego is based on an illusion of strength
    - - identification with other objects and people which are projections of our narcissistic self-image of unity and self-sufficiency
    - - narcissistic process
  - - - development of desire
    - - in the Oedipus complex, child submits to identifying with the Nom-du-pere
        
        submit to the no of the father
        
        identity with the name of the father
      - all signification is phallic (patriarchal)
  - - - related to...
        
        the brute materiality of the human body which exists prior to language
        
        the traumatic core of human existence
        
        the death drive
- - - - Hollywood movies reduce women to screens for male fantasy projections and scopophilia
      - women as passive objects of desire
        
        Mulvey misunderstands Lacan's notion of the gaze as it is located in objects, not subjects
    - - women pay a less passive role than Mulvey suggest
        
        movies involve us in the imaginary order, asking us to identify with the cinematic apparatus: it reproduces the child's experience in the mirror stage
        
        spectators are not the masters of the images they see on the screen/ mirror stage produces a traumatized, split subject
- - - - considers human beings as 'signifying animals
      - applies the structuralist model of the sign to the unconscious
    - - precedes subjects:
        
        we do not acquire language; we are born into it
        
        language speaks through us= it speaks rather than being spoken by us
  - - - the unconscious is governed and shaped by symbolic order
        
        condensation= metaphor
        
        displacement= metonymy
- - - - the symbolic order penetrates even the 'private' desire and unconscious
- - - - Principles:
        
        no fixed length of therapeutic sessions
      - no ego-bolstering techniques
      - treatment of acutely suicidal patients
      - disbanded in 1980
- - - - self-alienation
        
        self-aggressivity
        
        self-destructive drive (death drive)
        
        fascination with bodily mutilation and fragmentation