Prematurity at Birth
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.169
Presentation on Psychical Causality > *3. The Psychical Effects of the Imaginary Mode*
Theoretical move: Lacan grounds psychical causality in the concept of the imago and identification, arguing that the mirror stage reveals a primordial alienation of the ego from being — a narcissistic-suicidal knot that underlies madness — and advances biological evidence (pigeon ovulation, locust gregariousness triggered by visual form-perception) to establish the imago as a genuinely causal, irreducible psychical object on par with Galileo's mass point in physics.
I have, in fact, taken my conception of the existential meaning of the phenomenon a bit further by understanding it in relation to what I have called man's prematurity at birth, in other words, the incompleteness and 'delay' in the development of the central nervous system during the first six months of life.