Multiple choice

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.

 

  1. 'Blade Runner' a critical view of the film.

  2. How a human associates himself with the world.

  3. The realization of human being's own identity.

  4. A human being discovers the differences between him and others in the world.

  5. An infant's first reaction to the world.

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Explanation

The main idea is how humans identify themselves.