The Unknown in the Infant's Experience of the Mother

The Mona Lisa is a good metaphor for the earliest question that the infant has with their mother, asks what does she want from me. There's something about looking at that piece of art and going like what is going on in Mona Lisa's eyes? This is precisely what Freud says in this quite brief little fragment in the 1895 text,. he says the infant's experience of the mother divides into two parts. One part the infant recognizes as a kind of reflection of its own body - exactly interestingly enough what La Con called the imaginary.