ABSTRACT
In the early 1950s, the term comes to refer to the fundamental rupture between man and NATURE, which is due to the fact that ‘in man, the imaginary relation has deviated, in so far as that is where the gap is produced whereby death makes itself felt’ (S2, 210). This gap between man and nature is evident in the mirror stage:
One has to assume a certain biological gap in him [man], which I try to define when I talk to you about the mirror stage…. The human being has a special relation with his own image-a relation of gap, of alienating tension.
