imagoes

• The first event sidesteps all sorts of questions about the topology of the body and differences between the body as a lived experience from the inside versus a surface viewed from the outside (here Lacan makes an important contribution with his account of specular identification with bodily imagoes), presuming that the infant experiences its body as a specular surface as seen from a third-person point of view and thereby likening its body to the bodies of other figures it encounters in its visual field. —  Larval Subjects .

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