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MIRROR — Self-Recognition and the Emergence of the Self

MYSTERY_EXPLORATION throughout. These entries trace how the encounter with one’s own reflection — physical, psychological, social, digital — shapes the construction of selfhood. Whether the “self” that emerges is discovered or fabricated is the central open question. 12 entries.

I. The Mirror Test — Self-Recognition Across Species

  1. Mirror Self-Recognition Test — Gallup (1970)

II. Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

  1. Lacan Mirror Stage — The Mirror Stage (1949)
  2. Winnicott Mirror Role — The Mirror Role of the Mother (1971)
  3. Looking-Glass Self — Cooley (1902)

III. The History of Mirrors as Technology

  1. History of Mirrors — From Obsidian to Silvered Glass

IV. Art and the Mirror

  1. Brunelleschi’s Mirror Experiment — The Birth of Perspective from a Mirror
  2. Self-Portraits in Art — The Artist Confronts the Mirror

V. Mythology and Philosophy of the Mirror

  1. Narcissus — The Reflection Mistaken for the Source
  2. Girard Mimetic Desire — The Mirror of the Other (1961)
  3. Buddhist Anatta — The Empty Mirror

VI. Modern Reflections

  1. Foucault Technologies of the Self — Technologies of the Self (1982/1988)
  2. Selfie and Social Media — The Hall of Mirrors

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VII. The Biological Mirror

  1. Immune System as Mirror — Self/Non-Self as Biological Reflection

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