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mismirror en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + mirror.

Meanings

1. To provide a distorted reflection of
   • In the second version the mother misreads (mismirrors) her baby's messages because she cannot tolerate the baby's sensuous/sexual arousal, or its pain and neediness, or its desperation. 2014, Lewis Aron, Adrienne Harris, Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 4: Expansion of Theory, page 336:
   • Each time, Helga's vulnerable and defensively haughty self approaches a potential mirror and is, or perceives itself to be, mismirrored. 1997, Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, Female Subjects in Black and White, page 258:
   • One mirror must mirror another; each mirror mismirrors the other. 2015, Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry:
   • The interpersonal self thus comes into being as a result of experiences with interpersonal mirroring or mismirroring, that is, approval or disapproval. 2014, Marylou Lionells, John Fiscalini, Carola Mann, Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis:

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