Lacan's "Mirror" stage of self awareness

Overview

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst who updated the theories of Sigmund Freud. Lacan is most famous in media studies for his description of the "mirror" phase of human development, in which babies become aware   of being distinct entities from their surroundings. While Lacan probably meant to use the term "mirror" as a metaphor, his idea has been extended by many who use "mirror" as a way to refer to all of the means of reproduction of images of ourselves. This is particularly interesting given the now common place use of digital cameras, photo manipulation software, and web publishing.

Primary Reading

John Zuern " Lacan "

http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/lacan/index.html

Laurie Taylor " When Seams Fall Apart: Video Game Space and the Player"

http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/taylor/

Darian Leader and Judy Groves. " Lacan for beginners "

Trumpington, [England] : Icon Books, 1995.

T.L. Robertson Library, Curtin University.

Level 4 150.195 LEA

More

The place of Lacan in Psychoanalysis

"Jacques Lacan" by Dr. Mary Klages, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder.

http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/lacan.html

On Lacan and other theorists as applied in new media theory

Georg Lauteren. "The Pleasure of the Playable Text:

Towards an Aesthetic Theory of

Computer Games " in

Proceedings of Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference,ed. Frans Mäyrä. p217

Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2002. Copyright: authors and Tampere University Press.