Lacan proposed that the mirror stage was part of an infant's development from 6 to 18 months.
The account of the mirror stage is feasibly Lacan's most famous theoretical contribution. Initially developed in the 1930s, it involves a number of interrelated ingredients. Lacan offers the narrative of this stage as an explanation for the functions of the Freudian psychical agency of the ego.
By early 1950s, Lacan's concept of the mirror stage had evolved: he no longer considered the mirror stage as a moment in the life of the infant, but as representing a permanent structure of subjectivity, or as the paradigm of "imaginary order".
One of the psychoanalytic and philosophical upshots of the mirror stage, a crucial one in Lacan's eyes, is that the ego is an object rather than a subject. In other words, the ego, despite conscious senses to the contrary, is not a locus of autonomous agency, the seat of a free, true “I” determining its own fate. This portrait of the ego-as-object is at the heart of Lacan's lifelong critical polemics against Anglo-American ego psychology, with the ego psychologists seeking to strengthen their patients' egos by appealing to supposed autonomous and “conflict-free” sides of these psychical agencies. Against this, Lacan views the ego as thoroughly compromised and inherently neurotic to its very core, as a passionate defence of a constitutive ignorance of the unconscious.
Related the idea of "lack" and that it caused desires to arise.
"Desire is a relation to being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It is not the lack of this or that, but the lack of being whereby the being exists."
Similar to the Freudian approach of id acting on the hedonistic lifestyle where was the Superego act on the moral principles and what "lack" related to is the Ego which is in between. From a Freudian approach, the "lack" of hedonistic features strive us to act on moral principles and vice versa. Can never fulfil the "lack", desires have to be unreasonable.
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