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Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others?

AW.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk

BRoland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”

CJacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage... “

DJudith Butler’s Gender Trouble

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C. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage... “

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The correct answer is Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage... “.

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