Lacanian psychoanalytic view of Trepliov

Lacan, the French psychiatrist, stated that the child’s psychological developments are threefold. In the imaginary stage, the child experiences a sense of wholeness and unity, as typified by the satisfaction of all his needs by his mother, that is shattered through his recognition of individuality and separateness in the mirror stage. Lacan employs the plausible scene of a child observing its image in a mirror to express the idea of his first recognition of “the other”; the child begins to become aware of his separation from everyone and everything. The third stage which Lacan calls the symbolic, is associated with the acquisition of language. In the imaginary stage, the child has no need of formal language since his needs are satisfied without his asking and because he has no awareness of otherness. After undergoing the mirror stage the child is forced to enter the symbolic world of language, in this stage the father, coming between the child and his mother

Afterwards his separation from Nina adds up to his sense of failure and loss, he tries to commit suicide by shooting himself, but fails. This trial carries an important significance. It’s known that a baby when communicates with his mother, before he develops a sense of language, uses what we may term as semiotic; that is any mean of communication but language. At this point, Trepliov returns to nonentity, what makes him, unconsciously, seeks his other alternative to achieve a sense of wholeness: imaginary state. He chooses a semiotic way to communicate with his mother as a baby does. His suicide is nothing but a cry to make her pay attention.

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