This document provides an overview of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan's theories of personality and psychosexual development. It discusses Freud's stages of psychosexual development from infancy through childhood, including the Oedipus complex and castration anxiety. It also covers Lacan's mirror stage theory, in which the mirror stage marks a turning point in a child's mental development and their relationship with their body image. Lacan believed this led to the orders of the imaginary, symbolic, and real that shape personality through language acquisition and the voice of the father.
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