Mirror stage:
Jacques Lacan proposed that the mirror stage/phase was as stage of development between the ages of 6 to 18 months. In the early 1950s, Lacan had further developed his theory: as opposed to the mirror stage just being a moment in a baby/child's life, he believed that it represented a permanent (unreachable) ideal or a model of "imaginary order".
Notion of "Lack":
"Desire is a relation of being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It is not the lack of 'this or that' but the lack of being whereby the being exists".
Lacan's notion of lack is similar to Freud's approach of the ID acting on a hedonistic/self-indulgent lifestyle, the superego acting on the moral principles and the "lack" (relating to the ego) which acts as an in between/balance. This theory/notion is shown and represented a great deal in films particularly through the protagonist of the text (for example: Blue Velvet - Lynch, Vertigo - Hitchcock)
"Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore" - The Life of David Gale (2003). Essentially, we crave and strive for something that is forever out of reach.
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