ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Alterity, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan
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6:32 pm: studied freud his entire life, hegel"s master/slave dialectic: a master is not a master without a slave. There needs to be a recognition for him to claim his master-hood over the slave. The mirror gives an ideal of wholeness yet this self-awareness is not fully recognized. The mirror serves to confirm the existence of the baby, even if not in full honesty: the imaginary, the real, the symbolic, the imaginary: constituted by synthesis, autonomy, duality. The imaginary stage is the stage where the self meets its image. It is called so because it involves an image. This deals directly with the story of the baby and the mirror. The baby"s sense of self is the imaginary; that connection of image and self and it introduces narcissism. It also forms a sense of radical alienation; the awareness of the self on this side versus the self in the mirror.
