Mirror is a psychological door to the Otherness of Self. The Mirror Tells It All?
Mirrors are familiar objects, but even simple questions about what they make visible to an observer are unexpectedly hard to answer correctly. Even harder is to think or judge what is happening on the glass surface. What psychological factors lie beneath these surprising difficulties? Most people are fascinated by mirrors and reflections. We might think that as we look in the mirror what we see is an identical copy of ourselves (and everything else). In reality the copy is different in a subtle way – the real object and the virtual object are related the way that our right hand is related to our left hand. Mirrors are actually pretty important to our psychological development and being. They’re the foundation of a classic test of when we develop “self-consciousness”.
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