lacan

jaques lacans name is oddly fitting as his theory of the mirror stage focuses on a persons own personal lack, lacan stated that people have a mirror stage, the mirror stage is something lacan initially theorised took place during a childs early development but later expanded upon claiaming that people constantly experience the mirror phase through out there lives. the mirror stage involves someone invisioning a perfect version of themselves which they then see as unobtainable, this creates aconstant desire to become that best verion of yourself but as it is unobtainable the person will experiece various lacks in their life which they will try to furfill as they believe that will help them become that perfect version and be happy but as the mirror version is unobtainable there will constantly be new lacks and the person will always be missing somthing there perfect counterpart has no matter what they do.

lacans idea of lack comes from the desires of a person and can essientally be boilt down never being satified, a person will always have a lack and will seek to fill it but whenever they get what they desire they will want somthing else, essentally humans as they are will never be satified, whiplsash: whiplash is a film that focuses on an unhealthy obsession and what ignoring those around you can do to someones life, during one scene of the film the main character neeman experiences a car crash whilst trying to make a performance on time, dispite being bloody and battered he still makes his way to the performance even though he needs medical attention, this focuses on how his obsession has made him value his career over his own life. in another scene of the film neeman empties his room of everyting but his drum kit and a matress, this is the directors way of using mis en scene to show the audience how neeman thinks, him removing everything else from his room excpet the bare nessities is representing him pushing out all the parts of his life that arent drumming like his dad and girlfriend, it also shows how he seems drumming as a vital part of life like eating and sleeping