Answering Questions

Let me give my opinion on some of the people's response or attempt to come up with an answer to the questions proposed.

Firstly, I absolutely agree to Ryan's commentary raised from his deep impression about Lacan's Mirror Stage. I also found this explanation very helpful and illustrative that I better understood. However, Ryan seemed to question about the role of the third person and the necessity of the person being a mother as it was specifically provided as mother in Lacan's essay. In my point of view, first of all, I do not believe that it does not matter whoever is working as an agent to make a baby aware of his/her subjectivity. The point from this analysis is that baby is not able to acknowledge the image as his or her own image reflected. That being said, it is important that there is someone like a mother figure to help the little baby out.

Secondly, I do not think that I can "answer" the question, but would like to give my personal response to the questions raised by Ioana: Are human beings necessarily assigned the positions of “subject”, “ego”, “other” (of Lacan’s “quadrature of the ego’s verifications”, 4), or could “things” also be an option? (the position of “things” is arguably assigned to women in classic Hollywood films, for example, I would suggest). I believe that the first question itself is not valid. Human beings are not assigned the positions of subject. However, they create subjectivity, ego, etc; thus, not passively. Human beings would assign concept of subject and ego from their presence, while actively developing their ego. Talking about the second part, I would like to say "things" could be an option. Especially when you are talking of a person who is not present at the instance of discourse, it is more prevalent.