"We have only to understand the mirror stage as an identification, I the full sense that analysis gives to the term: namely, the transformation that takes place in the subject when he assumes as image. This jubilant assumption if his specular image by the child at the infans stage, still sunk in his motor incapacity and nursling dependence, would seem to exhibit in an exemplary situation the symbolic matrix in which the I is precipitated in a primordial form, before it is objectified in the dialect of identification with the other , and before language restores to it, in the universal, its function as a subject. This form would have to be called the Ideal-I, if we wished to incorporate it into our usual register, in the sense that it will also be the source of secondary Identifications, under which term I would place the functions if libidinal normalization. But the important point is that this form situates the agency of the ego, before its social determination, in a fictional direction, which will only rejoin the coming-into-being ( le devenir ) of the subject asymptotically, whatever the success of the dialectical synthesis by which he must resolve as I his discourse with his own reality." Jaques Lacan
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