What is the theme around which passage 1 revolves?
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Passage 1
In Blade Runner (a 1982 Ridley Scotts movie) the query
put forth is
a striking but on obvious one. It talks of what
is real and what
is unreal. Other pivotal thought is about
the
identity, that if we are Homo sapiens what made us
(5) know or realize that we are
humans. These inquiries have
centered
humanity from the advent of Adam &
Eve on earth .
Jacques Lacan
to an extent explains in his theory how
humans
identify themselves. He contributes the mirror stage.
When an
eighteen month infant first beholds his image in
(10) the mirror; he associates himself with this
world. Along with
that he
discovers he is different from the rest of the world.
So with this
mirror image he relates to his identity but the
veracity of
the thought is that the image is not the ‘real’
subject. It
is a mere reflection. At this point begins the
(15) procedure of identity production. This image
is like an
exterior
layer but it helps the subject to display his identity.
This
changing exterior layer is ‘Orthopaeadic’ for Lacan.
The baby in
the lap of the adult uses this mirror stage in
self
recognition. He first turns to the adult cradling him in
(20) his arms; he checks the expression of his
beholder and
compares it
with the mirror image and after that he
associates
his own image with his real self.
Lacan
elucidated Henri
Walton’s observations about
child
recognition
by coining the term mirror stage where a child
(25) conceives notions and identification about
his own physical
self. He
feels enthralled at the realization. This stage has
been given
profuse importance as this is the moment when
an infant
becomes conscious of his body’s entireness even
earlier to
the knowledge of his body’s functions. He has not
(30) even taken up the physical controls of his
physicality.
We conclude
ourselves as an autonomous individual from
the rest of
the world through language, but at a later stage.
This self
cognizance involves a few losses also.
Passage 2
By traditional standards Lacan was unorthodox. He gained
fame by his
fundamental redrafts of Freud and his theory:
how language
and sexuality disorganized a life. Freud’s
principles
in France were falling low and existentialism was
(5) rising. Lacan was competent
enough to go through a
complete
makeover man overnight. He began with a new
society by
organizing seminars. People acclaimed ‘return
of
Freud’ and Lacan proposed a structuarlist Freud as there
was no art
without subjects like sex, rebel and mental
(10) disturbances.
The
relativity between Lacan’s psychoanalytic hypotheses
and more
orthodox psychological concepts needs to be
studied.
Lacan believed psychoanalytical hypothesis to be
beyond
psychology. But others contrived that Lacan’s
(15) aureatic comparison between the behavior of
children and
chimpanzees
in reaction to the mirror images is quite
inaccurate.
His writings have neither the approval of
coetaneous
psychologists nor have they interpreted Lacan’s
claims at
the time of citing.
(20) Derrida was critical of Lacan’s view.
Yet psychoanalysis remains
a system with fanatic following.