the looking glass
lacan
french psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
jacques
the mirror stage
"It suffices to understand the mirror stage in this context as an identification,
in the full sense analysis gives to the term: namely, the transformation
that takes place in the subject when he assumes fassumef an image-an
image that is seemingly predestined to have an effect at this phase, as witnessed
by the use in analytic theory of antiquity's term, 'imago.'"
Carroll, Lewis and Sir John Tenniel. Through the looking glass: and what Alice found there (1897).

Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967).
image of michel foucault: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Foucault5.jpg

Gregory, R. L. Mirrors in Mind (1996).
image of richard gregory: http://www.grand-illusions.com/images/articles/opticalillusions/hollow_face/mainimage.jpg

Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits: A Selection (1966).
image of jacques lacan: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Lacan2.jpg

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995).
image of sherry turkle: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Sherry_Turkle.jpg

doll face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY
doll face
turkle
sherry
foucault
michel
gregory
richard
mirror-object
"One's own face is a unique mirror-object as it is never seen directly, being invisible to its owner without a mirror. How, then, do you know that it is yourself in the mirror?"
British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol
French philosopher, sociologist, and historian
heterotopia
"In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; I am over there, there where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy."
carroll
lewis
credits
Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality Psychology, Professor at MIT, Social Studies of Science and Technology
the decentered self
"The self is no longer simply playing different roles in different settings at different times, something that a person experiences when, for example, she wakes up as a lover, makes breakfast as a mother, and drives to work as a lawyer. The life practice of windows is that of a decentered self that exists in many worlds and plays many roles at the same time."
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known by the pseudonym  Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and a photographer.
looking-glass house
"And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly. So, to punish it, she held it up to the Looking-glass that it might see how sulky it was--"and if you're not good directly," she added, 'I'll put you through into Looking-glass House. How would you like that?'"