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The Inverted Bouquet and the Mirror

In seminar one and two he gets this this example of the inverted bouquet. The position from which you see the image is always symbolically situated. He links that to the symbolic order so the very position from which a child sees its imaginary image is itself symbolically constituted. This goes back to your idea of the parent holding the child right? It's not even much what's interesting is it's not even that much later, I think.

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