ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is about two things: sex and representation. The less offensive version of this binary is body and soul. Mirroring is the process that calls the Ego into existence and comes down to the adoption of a body image that was first actively captured by the infant in the external world as something ideal—as an Ideal Ego, because it answers the desire of the Other. Jacques Lacan develops this theory through the course of several seminars emphasising the determining role the Symbolic plays on the Imaginary. The implications for his theory on the body can be illustrated by a quote of that time: “The relation of the subject with the organ is at the heart of our experience”. The other jouissance implies a knowledge that is acquired by the body through its experience of this jouissance, an experience that causes an inscription on the body itself.
