Analysis #2 - Structuralism - Lacan and Language - "The Mirror Stage"

Jacques Lacan, one of the precursors to post-structuralism, combined Freud's psychoanalysis theory with Saussure's structuralism, leading to a theory sometimes called "Lacanian psychoanalysis". He believed, unlike Freud, that the ego itself could not take place of the unconscious, if the unconscious mind created the ego, or the 'I' self, making it but an illusion.
Such as that rather than considering the ego as a central part of a person, whereas Lacan places the consciousness as the center, and the ego just a part of it.
This theory appears quite true since not all people look at themselves as the center of every thing and rather look to others to be the center of their worlds. Lacan takes apart Freud's idea of consciousness and ego helping others realize their true selves rather than a self-centered version. This turns Freud's fragmented idea of self into a more unified structure, changing language and ideas into a far more coherent form.
In Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience, Lacan states that:
"This form would have to be called the Ideal-I, if we wish to incorporate it into our usual register, in the sense that it will also be the source of secondary identifications, under which term I would place the functions of libidinal normalization. But the important point is that this form situates the agency of the ego, before its social determination, in a fictional direction, which will always remain irreducible for the individual alone, or rather, which will only rejoin the coming-into-being (le devenir) of the subject asymptotically, whatever the success of the dialectical syntheses by which he must resolve as I his discordance with his own reality" (p.1165, Lacan).
This, albeit, passage, brings forth the center of Lacan's Mirror Stage theory in that it is about discovering ones self outside the usual pretenses society brings forth, and discovering the I instead of the we or us, in a conversation, but the individual.

Works Cited
Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.