Jacques Lacan - 'The Mirror Stage'

Jacques Lacan was a psychoanalysist who is famous for his mirror stage theory. He described the mirror stage as "Formative of the function of the / as revealed in psychoanalytic experience". In much simpler terms, the mirror stage was inspired by the creation of the Teenager era, and was about the time when a young individual would look at themselves in the mirror and start to crave change to their identity to make them unique or suit themselves to a collective identity, and invoking mental and image developments to the young individual.
Lacan proceeded further to explain how he believed that youth would go on to build an ego via objectification, and how the result of this ego was adoption of dissent of emotions and reality, aiming to avoid alienation through what i believe is the new ego formed and hoping to acquire the reverse of alienation, and find acceptance, confidence and security (perhaps through a collective identity or individual identity, what the individual would associate themselves with or assume themselves part of).
The idea of a mirror image could influence youth within the media that they choose to watch and associate themselves with. They must see a theme or icon within the texts they associate themselves with to create aspiration, familiarity and security that they can develop a connection to as this is what would reinforce, affirm and secure these aspects. Drawing aspiration from this could develop a stronger interest and the individual will strive to discover more media texts along similar lines which features similar themes to those of before, matching their new found identity.