‘I am watching you. Are you watching yourself in me?1’: reflection as an act of triangulation

This paper approaches the process of ‘reflection’ as an interpersonal and intra-personal creative act. As commonly used, the word ‘reflection’ appears to reference two seemingly different processes; the returning of a mirror image and the process of reflective thought. Examining the intersection of these two definitions – from infant development, through attachment theory to post-Kleinian thinking and Lacan – this paper finds that the act of ‘reflection’ can be conceived of as an act of triangulation, in a mathematical sense, whereby a pre-existing but unknown point is found/made using two known points as the vertices.