Lacan is tedious reading, indeed:

Dec 12 2001
Lacan is tedious reading, indeed:

"What I have called the mirror stage is interesting in that it manifests the affective dynamism by which the subject originally identifies himself with the visual Gestalt of his own body: in relation to the still very profound lack of co-ordination of his own motility, it represents an ideal unity, a salutary imagos; it is invested with all the original distress resulting from the child's intra-organic and relational discordance during the first six months, when he bears the signs, neurological and humoral, of a physiological natal prematuration." (pg. 19)

Surely, there is a fairy tale equivalent available?