The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan theorized that human beings go through a "mirror stage" of development, in which they first sense themselves as entities within but distinct from the surrounding world and after which they do not any longer consider themselves to be mere extensions of their mothers.

(A) they do not any longer consider themselves to be

(B) they no longer regard themselves to be

(C) they no longer consider themselves

(D) they do not any longer regard themselves to be

(E) they no longer consider themselves as being

OA C

Source: Princeton Review