The historical development and clinical implications of Jacques Lacan's Optical Schema.

The debate carried on through his Ecrits is, Lacan wrote in 1966, "le debat des lumires" - the age-old intellectual struggle pursued by men and women to break out of the shadows and the images in which reality, and in particular the reality of those whom they love best, is shrouded, in order to come to live in the truth: the search for more light, "Mehr licht, in Goethe's dying words.…