Question

In Lacanian literary criticism, the stage after acquisition oflanguage is called:

• A. Mirror stage
• B. Imaginary stage
• C. Emotional stage
• D. Symbolic stage

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Symbolic stage

• Lacanianism or Lacanian psychoanalysis is a theoretical system initiated by the work of Jacques Lacan from the 1950s to the 1980s.

• It is a theoretical approach that atempts to explain the mind, behaviour, and culture through a structuralist and post-structuralist extension of classical psychoanalysis.