Freud + Lacan's Scopophilia + Voyeurism

Jacques Lacan

Sigmund Freud

Jacques Lacan a French psychoanalysis and psychiatric, theorized that we construct our identities by looking at ourselves and at each other. When children we derive pleasure from studying other people's bodies, this is called scopophilia. He also theorized, what is called the 'Mirror Stage', in which the first time we look at ourselves in a mirror, is the first time we understand ourselves as people.








Sigmund Freud a Austrian neurologist, believed that   people enjoyed cinema, because it allowed them to look at people without being seen themselves, this is called voyeurism, and that we as people enjoy this voyeurism.