HETEROTOPIES - HETEROTOPÍA

The reflexivity inherent in fantasy is apparent in the mirror stage, since to recognize oneself as "I" is like recognizing oneself as other ("yes, that person over there is me").

"No one escapes it. Except perhaps the saint, the mystic, or the writer who, through the power of language... [identifies] with love itself and what he is in fact - a fire of tongues, an exit of representation."

Julia Kristeva, Readings of Exile and Estrangement, 1996.

Heterotopies are worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside.