imagoes

It lacked the lush growth of the delta-and the stagnant pools that fostered the emerging imagoes-but a few trees and some brush lined the edges, bracketing a wide, inviting beach.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

The first event sidesteps all sorts of questions about the topology of the body and differences between the body as a lived experience from the inside versus a surface viewed from the outside (here Lacan makes an important contribution with his account of specular identification with bodily imagoes), presuming that the infant experiences its body as a specular surface as seen from a third-person point of view and thereby likening its body to the bodies of other figures it encounters in its visual field.

Larval Subjects . 2008