title: [The mirror stage ("Stade du Miroir" by J. Lacan) as a crucial stage of development for finding one's identity - normal, neurotic, psychotic development].
abstract: The socalled "Mirror Stage" ("Stade du Miroir" by J. Lacan) seems to be a normal stage of development between the sixth and the eighteenth month of age. In the centre of this study you find terms of developmental psychology and especially of psychoanalysis like: 'mother-child relationship', 'first relationship to objects', 'passage from primary to secondary narcism', 'ego-ideal' and 'ideal of the ego' and others. The Mirror Stage seems to be especially important for the formation of the identity: wether the child becomes 'normal', 'neurotic' or 'psychotic'. Here we also find terms, invented by Lacan like the 'Real', the 'Imaginary' and the 'Symbolic'.
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D002657:Child Development; D004532:Ego; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007223:Infant; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D010988:Play and Playthings; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Das Spiegelstadium ('Stade Du Miroir' nach J. Lacan) als richtungsweisende Entwicklungsstufe für die Identitätsfindung--'Normale', 'Neurotische', 'Psychotische' Entwicklung.