I don't know much about existentialism, but I have been doing a lot of readings from and about Jacques Lacan over the past few months. The final 30 seconds or so of this video represent what he says about the creation of self-identity in the Imaginary or Mirror phase of childhood development.

there's a tedtalk on this somewhere in the sift

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