This paper is an attempt at dialogue between Lacanian and traditional psychoanalytic theory with the central focus being the human reflection. The mirror image has not been given a great deal of attention by psychoanalytic writers with the exception being Lacan, who distinguishes its constitutive properties. The author attempts to clarify Lacan’s structural theory of subjectivity in order to delineate the reflection as a potential fourth corner in an oedipal quadrant, basing this on Freud’s notion of the “harbinger of death” mentioned in The Uncanny, Lacan’s formulation of the clinical structure of obsessional neurosis, and the story of Narcissus. This paper also explores similarities between Lacanian and recent Kleinian conceptions of libidinal and aggressive narcissism that are attributed to an antithesis of the life and death drives. Further attention is given to the underlying role of traditional psychoanalytic concepts of “mirroring”, “containment”, and “projective identification” in the development of the subject within the structures of the real, imaginary, and symbolic, and how the central psychoanalytic concept of mourning can be understood within Lacan’s framework rooted in structural theory.