1. What is the difference between the imago and the ideal-I? Does the ideal-I exist or does it precede existence?

2. Which two aspects symbolize the mental permanence of the I?

3. Lacan compares nature to its altered reflection. According to this comparison which is real? Why?

4. How does Lacan's reasoning "oppose any philosophy directly issuing from [the Cartesian] Cogito"?

5. How is infantile psychological development impelled toward what Lacan calls "orthopaedic"? Look "orthopaedic" up in the dictionary. What is its etymology? Any thoughts?

6. Why does Lacan characterize the self as an "illusion of autonomy"?

7. What is "méconnaissance"? How does it typify the ego in all its structures? How is it an effect of the mirror stage?

8. What does Lacan mean by "Thou art that"?

9. How does Lacan's "other diagram" disturb the belief that signifiers answer "to the function of representing the signified"? How does it demonstrate the signifier entering the signified?

10. How does the signifier anticipate the signified? How is Saussure's account of this "incessant sliding" different from Lacan's?

11. What is the difference between sequence and harmonics? Why is it important?

12. What is the difference between Saussure's notion of signifiers as disguises for signifieds and Lacan's notion of signifiers as diversion from meaning?

13. How does Lacan use "the structure of the signifying chain" to locate subjectivity? Is this subjectivity the self? Is it Cartesian? Saussurean? Derridean?

14. From what does "the creative spark of metaphor" spring? How does Lacan's position understand presence?

15. What is the "figure of the burgeoning of fecundity"?

16. Are metaphor and metonymy constitutive of the ego or aspects of the ego?

17. How does Lacan distinguish between the true and the real?

18. How can you recognize a bad psychoanalyst according to Lacan?

19. What is the "self's radical ex-centricity to itself"? How does thinking about language help this truth to emerge?