Based on the analysis of recent dreams collected from college students in both the eastern and western regions of the United States, this article identifies a new visual mode of self‐making wherein young Americans imaginatively see themselves and others as images captured by and performing for a lens. Extending Lacan's notion of the mirror phase and building on Metz's concept of scopic regimes, we propose the concept of “specularity.” Further, we link specularity dreams to contemporary middle‐class child‐rearing practices and an increasingly obligatory engagement with technomediated practices. Specularity, we suggest, is a new mode by which subjectivities are reconfigured and brought into alignment with neoliberal styles of self‐representation.

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美国人在镜面时代的梦想

根据对美国东部和西部地区大学生最近梦dream以求的分析，本文确定了一种新的自我创造的视觉模式，其中，年轻的美国人富有想象力地将自己和其他人视为自己拍摄和表演的图像。镜片。扩展拉康的镜像阶段概念，并基于梅斯的镜域概念，我们提出了“镜面反射性”概念。此外，我们将镜射性梦想与当代中产阶级育儿实践以及对技术中介实践的强制性参与联系起来。我们认为，镜面反射是一种新的模式，通过该模式可以重新配置主观性，并使之与新自由主义的自我表现方式保持一致。