The concept of „mirror” and the action of „mirroring” are present in various schools and orientations
in both in psychology and psychotherapy, from the cognitive psychology to psychoanalitics.
From Wallon to Lacan the study of the mirror is sometimes the theoretical
expression of the moment when the child discovers his own body, and in other cases the moment
he discovers the other person, a parent, when he looks into the mirror. Lacan described
the mirror study (mirror stage) as a forming one for the function of self. The mirror stage is
not a simple phenomenon in the process of child development; it illustrates the conflict of the
dual relationship. The self is created through identifying with its own image. The mirror is also
present in literary fiction, participating in text formation and its meaning. We identify representations
of specular reflection in interwar and contemporary literature of romantic writers.