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 of romantic writers.