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. 2011 Jun;20(2):204-13.
doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.06.007. Epub 2010 Oct 2.

The uncanny mirror: a re-framing of mirror self-experience

Philippe Rochat  1 , Dan Zahavi
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The uncanny mirror: a re-framing of mirror self-experience

Philippe Rochat et al. Conscious Cogn. 2011 Jun.

Abstract

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.

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