Imago-Gestalt
On this page 1 section ›
This concept page does not yet have synthesis content. The extractor flagged it as a load-bearing concept; a future synthesis pass will populate it. The All Occurrences section below shows every place it appears in the corpus.
All occurrences
Where it appears in the corpus (1)
-
#01
Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.157
**9**
Theoretical move: The passage traces how the mirror stage co-constitutes the ego through a primordial alienation—méconnaissance—whereby the imaginary imago-Gestalt installs amour-propre (rivalrous, other-dependent desire) as more primitive than any pre-social self-love, and simultaneously shows how the symbolic order overwrites the mirror-formed body image with signifiers from the big Other, making the ego irreducibly extimate.
the infant…eventually latches onto the mirror's picture of an integrated, pulled-together figure (the imago-Gestalt of 'the total form')…the imago-Gestalt might be said to co-constitute the first object of desire