Need help to understand the grammar and meaning of this sentence
Hi, I am reading an introduction of Lacan's s critical theory from this website(https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/psychoanalysis/lacandevelop.html) and come across a sentence that baffles me.
" The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation—and which manufactures for the subject, caught up in the lure of spatial identification, the succession of phantasies that extends from a fragmented body-image to a form of its totality that I shall call orthopedic—and, lastly, to the assumption of the armour of an alienating identity, which will mark with its rigid structure the subject's entire mental development."
Especially I don't understand this part ------" and which manufactures for the subject, caught up in the lure of spatial identification, the succession of phantasies that extends from a fragmented body-image to a form of its totality " .
My question is :
1. What does the word "which" stands for?
2. Where is the verb of the clause led by "which"?
3. How to understand the whole sentence?
I will appreciate your reply on this question. ??
Top answer
The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation— and which manufactures for the subject, ( caught up in the lure of spatial identification, ) the succession of phantasies that extends from a fragmented body-image to a form of its totality that I shall call orthopedic— and , lastly, to the assumption of the armour of an alienating identity , which will mark with its rigid structure the subject's entire mental development. CJ
- The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation— and which manufactures for the subject, ( caught up in the lure of spatial identification, ) the succession of phantasies that extends from a fragmented body-image to a form of its totality that I shall call orthopedic— and , lastly, to the assumption of the armour of an alienating identity , which will mark with its rigid structure the subject's entire mental development.
- CJ
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The mirror stage is a drama
whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation—
and
which manufactures for the subject,
(caught up in the lure of spatial identification, )
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