Blog 11

The Day Dream of a Drunk Women and The Mirror Stage shared similar characteristics. The Mirror stage severed as reasoning behind the Drunk Women text.  Lispector’s explains that the women in bar is watching another women and is criticizing her beauty.  The women in my opinion is criticizing the person she wanted to be in her daydream. The Mirror Stage states, ” the important point is that this form situates the agency of the ego before its social determination in a fictional direction with will always irreducible for the individual alone”. The author is saying that a person people form in their in mind is their alter ego and who they want to be. With the information provided by The Mirror Stage  you can conclude that The women in the daydream is who she wants to be and thats why she is judging her so harshly. In addition to this The Mirror Stage says, “This fragmented body which them i have also introduced into our systems of theoretical references usually manifests itself in a dream”. The author is suggesting that peoples insecurities appear in their subconscious. Lispector description of the women body and the reference of  her beauty constantly suggest that her day dream is composed of her insecurities . Furthermore you can conclude that both text explain what happens in the subconscious.