Jacques Lacan, while finishing his doctorate thesis in 1932 and as a consequence of the problems he had been analyzing , announces the purpose of guiding his research towards the elucidation of narcisism. Among the productions that took part in this project, there is "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I" (1949), a text directly dedicated to this emergent notion that showed original strength in his thought. This paper analyzes in detail the presentation of the mirror stage accomplished in this text relating it with other contemporary Lacanian papers aiming to indicate its general contextualization in the theory of the Imaginary.
Lacanian Psychoanalysis; Imaginary; Mirror stage