See mismirror on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1997, Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, Female Subjects in Black and White, page 258:",
"text": "Each time, Helga's vulnerable and defensively haughty self approaches a potential mirror and is, or perceives itself to be, mismirrored.",
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"ref": "2014, Marylou Lionells, John Fiscalini, Carola Mann, Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis:",
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"ref": "2014, Lewis Aron, Adrienne Harris, Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 4: Expansion of Theory, page 336:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2015, Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry:",
"text": "One mirror must mirror another; each mirror mismirrors the other.",
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