What Do You Really Look Like to Other People?
People go a long time not looking at themselves, then you show up with a mirror and shove it in their faces.”
P R Adams • The Burning Sands Trilogy Omnibus
The person who gazes in the mirror receives an awareness of his other half, his shadow, or hidden man;
Robert Bly • Iron John
Close your eyes - does the Seeing stop? Visual dimensions and volume disappear. Is there a back to the Seeing?
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
Please verify: do you experience any shape, size, colour or form of yourself unless you think about it or make a mental image of it? Please check: do you experience any ‘face’ unless you think about it?
Kat Adamson • Sailor Bob
As the American sociologist Charles Cooley put it: “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.” He dubbed this phenomenon “the looking glass self,” and the evidence for it is diverse, encompassing the everyday experience of seeing ourselves through imagined eyes in social situations (the spotlight effec
... See moreThe French analyst Lacan had proposed, in a seminal paper to which Winnicott refers, ‘Le Stade du miroir’ (1949),8 that when the child looked in the mirror he saw a unified image of his own disarray. Though he experienced himself as all over the place, in bits and pieces, he observed himself collected into an image. This disparity – this formative
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