拉康的镜像理论与自我的建构

拉康认为,自我的建构离不开自身也离不开自我的对应物,即来自于镜中自我的影像;自我通过与这个影像的认同而实现。镜像阶段是一个自欺的瞬间,是一个由虚幻影像引起的迷恋过程,是想像性思维方式的起点。自我并不是自己的主宰;人们苦苦寻找自我,而当找到它时,它却外在于我们,总是作为一个他者而存在,被自身无法掌控的外部力量所决定,永久地被限定在与自己异化的境地。镜像阶段的想像性认同与人类知识同构,具有相似性。最后,笛卡儿式的主体不再能够自由地决定自己的生活,相反,该主体要受制于主体无法控制的外部力量。

Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Phase and Self-construction

Lacan holds that self-formation cannot be fulfilled without the self and its counterpart(i.e.mirror-reflected self image) and self will be identified by the image.Mirror stage is a self-deception instant,a fascination caused by illusion,and a start of imaginative mode of thinking.The ego is not fully self-aware or in control of itself;people always strive to seek for the ego,and after find it,they finally identify the self in terms of the Other by which the ego's perception of itself is shaped in alienation from it.The imaginative identification in the Mirror Stage has similar features with knowledge and its structure.In addition,Descartes's subject fails to decide its life freely;to the contrary,it is subjected to the uncontrollable Other.