Scopophilia: Narcissism
- Identification of the ego to the outside world as a one to one relationship
- Mulvey relates the experience watching film to narcissism and the mirror stage
- (page 18): “…it is an image that constitutes the matrix of the imaginary…and hence of the first articulation of the I, of subjectivity.”
- (page 17)” The conventions of mainstream film focus attention on the human form…” through scale, space, and stories. She see this a form of narcissistic fascination.