The imaginary register in the Lacanian antecedents. Prior to the introduction of the symbolic register in his teaching, something that left an indelible mark in his first seminars, Lacan focused his research, since the publication of his thesis in 1932 until the memorable Speech of Rome in 1953, on the issues related to the formation of the Ego (moi) in the dependence of the image of the other. In the wake of the proposal for a concrete psychology in his thesis, Lacan discusses the fundamental concepts of complex, imago and identification in their inflections in the weaning complex, the Oedipus complex, and especially the intrusion complex, which later was developed as the mirror stage.
Mirror stage; imaginary; Lacanian antecedents