4. Lacan’s Mirror Stage (4 of 4) :On looking good naked

Why is solitary confinement considered a form of torture? In what ways can we say that our relationship to our mirror images - as in attempts to try and look good naked - are always mediated by an other? Why is imaginary recognition always essentially (mis)recognition? In building complexity to Lacan’s ideas of imaginary identification, we attempt answers to all of the above questions, introducing also Lacan’s ideas of meconnaissance (mis-recognition), the paranoid quality of the ego’s knowledge of the world, the ideal-ego and the importance of symbolic mediation in our relationship to our own images. We also cautiously begin differentiating the Lacanian concepts of Imaginary, Symbolic and Real. Link to board: