Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction: Peripatetic Practices 1
4. Part I Identifications
5. 1 My Child in the Mirror: The Rise of the Mirror Self-Recognition Test 13
6. 2 “Not Suddenly, but by Degrees”: Child Psychology, Gender, and the Ambiguity of the Mirror 35
7. 3 The Dancing Robot: Grey Walter’s Cybernetic Mirror 60
8. 4 Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me: Gordon Gallup and the Study of Self-Recognition 84
9. Interlude 107
10. Part II Misidentifications
11. 5 The Mirror Test That Never Happened: Lacan, the Ego, and the Symbolic 115
12. 6 There Are No Mirrors in New Guinea: Edmund S. Carpenter and the Question of “Tribal Man” 141
13. 7 Diseases of the Body Image and the Ambiguous Mirror 161
14. 8 Imperfect Reflections: Mirror Neurons, Emotion, and Cognition 180
15. Conclusion: Failing the Test 211
16. Acknowledgments 217
17. Notes 221
18. Archival Documents 283
19. Index 285