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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Peripatetic Practices
Part I Identifications
1 My Child in the Mirror: The Rise of the Mirror Self-Recognition Test
2 "Not Suddenly, but by Degrees": Child Psychology, Gender, and the Ambiguity of the Mirror
3 The Dancing Robot: Grey Walter's Cybernetic Mirror
4 Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me: Gordon Gallup and the Study of Self-Recognition
Interlude
Part II Misidentifications
5 The Mirror Test That Never Happened: Lacan, the Ego, and the Symbolic
6 There Are No Mirrors in New Guinea: Edmund S. Carpenter and the Question of "Tribal Man"
7 Diseases of the Body Image and the Ambiguous Mirror
8 Imperfect Reflections: Mirror Neurons, Emotion, and Cognition
Conclusion: Failing the Test
Acknowledgments
Notes
Archival Documents
Index
Contents
Introduction: Peripatetic Practices
Part I Identifications
1 My Child in the Mirror: The Rise of the Mirror Self-Recognition Test
2 "Not Suddenly, but by Degrees": Child Psychology, Gender, and the Ambiguity of the Mirror
3 The Dancing Robot: Grey Walter's Cybernetic Mirror
4 Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me: Gordon Gallup and the Study of Self-Recognition
Interlude
Part II Misidentifications
5 The Mirror Test That Never Happened: Lacan, the Ego, and the Symbolic
6 There Are No Mirrors in New Guinea: Edmund S. Carpenter and the Question of "Tribal Man"
7 Diseases of the Body Image and the Ambiguous Mirror
8 Imperfect Reflections: Mirror Neurons, Emotion, and Cognition
Conclusion: Failing the Test
Acknowledgments
Notes
Archival Documents
Index