mismirror

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ mirror

Verb

mismirror (third-person singular simple present mismirrors, present participle mismirroring, simple past and past participle mismirrored)

1. To provide a distorted reflection of
   • 1997, Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, Female Subjects in Black and White, page 258:

     Each time, Helga's vulnerable and defensively haughty self approaches a potential mirror and is, or perceives itself to be, mismirrored.

   • 2014, Marylou Lionells, John Fiscalini, Carola Mann, Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis:

     The interpersonal self thus comes into being as a result of experiences with interpersonal mirroring or mismirroring, that is, approval or disapproval.

   • 2014, Lewis Aron, Adrienne Harris, Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 4: Expansion of Theory, page 336:

     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.

   • 2015, Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry:

     One mirror must mirror another; each mirror mismirrors the other.