The Play in the Mirror does not try to psychoanalyze characters, and its scope extends to spectators, readers, and literary critics who are also subject to the same lack, otherness, and desire. In a play, the subjects linked by the mirrors are the author and the spectator, brought together through language and desire through the theatrical performance. All plays and all critical articles are expressions of the desires of the creators. The critical act represents the intersubjective relationship, marked with the misunderstanding, defensiveness, rivalry, and attempts to dominate that characterize all dealings between two subjects. Even in criticism, the desire of the split subject insists.