Women and mirrors: Devastation and the irrepresentable in the female body
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Psychoanalysis, Devastation, beauty, body, narcissismAbstract
This article places Devastation as a logical process that highly contrasts, considering occurrence and psychological effects, with the one process which sets narcissism in the first time of Subject Constitution, as described by Freud in Introduction to Narcisism and Lacan in the Mirror Stage . Considering women´s necessity to have their image recast, this essay brings the old tale Snow White as a sample of the struggle women have with mirror image to show the structural origin of such discomfort by analyzing the relationship the stepmother has with her own image reflected by the talking mirror. Thus, we have based on psychoanalytical impressions concerning the process of constitution to enlighten the continuous effort of women in assimilating their own image, which, by structure, lacks a name (ideally symmetrical to the phallus) to house female satisfaction and a last word to represent the eventual identity of being a woman.
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