Beyond the “Reality Principle” : August – October 1936 (Marienbad and Noirmoutier) : Jacques Lacan
Tracing this text’s historical root Jacques Lacan delivered a paper entitled ‘Le stade du miroir’ at the fourteenth International Psychoanalytical Congress, held at Marienbad in August 1936 under the Chairmanship of Ernest Jones. Contrary to what is stated in Écrits (1966), Jacques Lacan never submitted it for publication. There is no paper by Lacan in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, IJP 1937, though reference is made to Lacan’s presentation. [See Mirror Stage - 16th [...]