Never has #Lacan's mirror phase theory been so on point. #Trump is stuck in that 6 to 18 month old time frame, "where an infant recognizes their reflection as a unified "self". This moment is a "misrecognition" b/c the infant identifies w/a stable, external image that contrasts w/their fragmented internal experience of their own body. This process is the foundation of the ego, which forms through this identification with an "Ideal I" or "other". That & #dementia.