English to Polish Medical Psychology Psychiatry

This is an excerpt from a book about psychiatry (psychosis and neurosis). This particular fragment is about the 'mirror stage'. CONTEXT: Our capture in images would thus both help and hinder us. It would allow us to gain mastery of our body, through the identification with the virtual image provided by our reflection or the image of the other, yet at the same time would alienate us and give an aggressive form to our relations with our counterparts. Identifying with the image promises to unify us, yet never entirely delivers, as the very thing that gives us unity takes it away. We grasp our unity through something that is not us, that is outside us.

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