For 10 points, name this author of Ecrits, a French neo-Freudian psychoanalyst who theorized the "mirror stage".
This thinker claimed that going beyond the pleasure principle could only lead to pain, or jouissance, in one of his seminars. In one essay he proposed a projection of the ego called the "little other", which creates a yearning for an unattainable aspect of the Other called the "object little a". This author of "The Formation of the Unconscious" described his most famous concept as "Formative of the I", and he conceived of it as the dialectic of the gaze between the Ideal-Ego and the Ego-Ideal in the development of infant self-consciousness. For 10 points, name this author of Ecrits, a French neo-Freudian psychoanalyst who theorized the "mirror stage".
This thinker claimed that going beyond the pleasure principle could only lead to pain, or jouissance, in one of his seminars.
Jacques {Lacan}