The infant does not seek reflection. The capacity to seek reflection—and the subsequent feeling of its lack—is a psychobiological program installed only after reflection itself has been provided. Teleology is nurture, not nature. #Amirroring #Aphantasia #DevelopmentalPsychology #Consciousness #Autopoiesis #ZeroPointOfNarcissism

Mirrors don’t create the self—they create the ego. Psychoanalysis and developmental psychology doesn’t conceive of human existence without hashtag#mirroring and ego. Daniel Stern reminds us that the self is innate. Amirrored development separates these layers: the self can persist without hashtag#ego, independent of any relational scaffolding. hashtag#DevelopmentalPsychology hashtag#Psychoanalysis hashtag#OntologyOfMind hashtag#InfantDevelopment https://cristinagherghel.substack.com/p/amirroring