ABSTRACT
The Mirror belongs to the tradition of aesthetic endeavour that finds its icon in Duchamp's Fountain and the urinal not exhibited at the Grand Central Palace in New York and it is the cause in the promotion of the autonomy of the art object. The Mirror-role of Mother and Family in Child Development was first published in 1967 and it is an invitation to revisit the figure of the mirror in terms of the relation between psychoanalysis and the image. The Lacan's fascination with the baby is captivated by the image of his reflection, craning towards the mirror. The psychoanalysis mediates between language and forms of experience and expression that cannot be caught up in words. To reconsider the figure of the mirror is one way for psychoanalytic film theory to reflect on what it is doing and why; and it begins with a conversation in the spaces between Winnicott, Lacan and the provocation of the mirror.
