... deficiency. Jacques Lacan was a French structuralist who focused on language and language-related issues. "Lacan treated the unconscious as a language and viewed the dream as a form of discourse" (169). Lacan describes a child's development during the pre-verbal stage the child enters the mirror or the imaginary order ... spent observing "decay and corruption of the human body," "to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses" (56). He is isolated continually, very similar to being a pre-verbal child, there is not language...

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