8.021 It is alongside this look that the "is of identification"
of the there behind the There precipitates an adoptive
identification of the complete
(m)Other-object as the form
of the Self creating
in the process yet another
object for the Psychical and Physical
Circuits of Exchange
8.022
Immediately following this identificatory act
the "is
of predication" qualifies the adopted Self as the one
capable of "being
it" for any locally available on looking
(m)Other
In other words it is at this stage Lacan's Mirror Stage that the
little speechless one flips completely from the primordial
state of being the whole World into
the dualistic one
of having a World a
(m)Other-containing-World
and having a Mind a Self-constructing-Mind
8.023 Evidence for this catastrophic split can be
observed at first hand by lovingly placing a coloured spot
on the forehead of any eight-month old child and sitting them
in front of a mirror At
first there will be no response
Their solipsistic state of Primary Narcissism remains
blissfully
intact They are and
remain the There
in which mirror images continually just
register as patches of colour
8.024 However generally by eighteen months most
children will have undergone that disastrous dualistic split
in which they become captured by their own image
in the mirror and thus are able to wipe the
coloured spot from their
own forehead
8.025 From that point on the little in fans,
no longer
secure in the thought
of being the whole World
suffers the consequences of having a World
and having a Self
an adopted alienated self
built on the image
of the (m)Other
Proposition 8.03 to follow