i am a camera obscura

Mirror Spock and Mirror Kirk from: Cool Toy Review

"There was also a woman who flew into a jealous rage every time she caught sight of her own reflection, believing this “other woman” was trying to lure her husband away from her. Her husband eventually covered every reflective surface in the house in an effort to keep her from hurting herself. Oddly enough, she had no problem recognizing herself in the mirror of her makeup compact, but anything larger resulted in an assault on the imaginary impostor."
— Gerry Matlack, Damn Interesting
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"When we look in the mirror, we are forever seeing a projection. As Lacan writes, the ego we access through the mirror 'is a product of misunderstanding, a false recognition.' I’ve heard some women say mirror abstinence would rob them of a hard-won acceptance of their appearance, and I wouldn’t want to diminish that. But if what the mirror gives us is imagined, I wonder how far its affirmation can take any of us." — Autumn Whitefield-Madrano, The New Inquiry
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