A gênese da teoria lacaniana do estágio do espelho: os materiais para construção

Abstract

This research proposes to investigate the main theoretical references used by Jacques Lacan for the construction of the theory of the stage of the mirror and aims to specify the role played by each of them in this construction. The aim is to contextualize the main concepts relevant to the theme from their primary sources and to analyze the internal conceptual architecture of the chosen works - in view of the author's productions published in the late 1930s until the mid 1950s. To recapitulate this trajectory, this work aims to trace the theoretical genesis of some fundamental concepts that marked the Lacanian thought at the beginning of its work and to rescue the origins of the main foundations from which Lacan constructs the theory of the stage of the mirror. Within this framework, the main references of developmental child psychology are presented in the works of Charlotte Bühler, James Mark Baldwin and, above all, Henri Wallon. Then retrieves the experiments of comparative psychology in the studies of Louis Bolk and Wolfgang Köhler. Finally, from the evidence presented, it is a question of precisely situating the main perspectives that Lacan approaches and adheres to in his object of study, highlighting the differences of conceptions adopted, when these are relevant or important to the understanding of the theory.