The uncanny mirror: a re-framing of mirror self-experience.
Mirror self-experience is re-casted away from the cognitivist interpretation that has dominated discussions on the issue since the establishment of the mirror mark test. Ideas formulated by Merleau-Ponty on mirror self-experience point to the profoundly unsettling encounter with one's specular double. These ideas, together with developmental evidence are re-visited to provide a new, psychologically and phenomenologically more valid account of mirror self-experience: an experience associated with deep wariness.
Rochat
Philippe
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Department of Psychology Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States. psypr@emory.edu
Zahavi
Dan
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D000818:Animals; D035841:Behavioral Research; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000523:psychology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012649:Self Concept; D014796:Visual Perception