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A first version of this paper was presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, organized by Professor Martin Dillon at the State University of New York, Binghampton, 7–9 October, 1982.
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O'Neill, J. The specular body: Merleau-Ponty and Lacan on infant self and other. Synthese 66, 201–217 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413644
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