Kid A In Alphabet Land/Mirror Stage
Mirror Stage
Kid A In Alphabet Land Meets the Mirror Stage!
The mirror stage describes a formative moment in which the subject identifies with an image of itself as whole and unified. This identification produces the ego, but at the cost of misrecognition.
The reflected image offers coherence and mastery, masking the subject’s lived experience of fragmentation and dependency. Unity is achieved visually, not bodily.
For Lacan, the mirror stage inaugurates the Imaginary order. It establishes relations of rivalry and comparison, as the subject seeks confirmation of itself through images.
Within Kid A In Alphabet Land, the Mirror Stage presents Kid A with a seductive reflection. What appears as completion conceals a constitutive split that will never fully close.