The concept of reversibility is developed by Merleau-Ponty to grasp our gaze as a perspective that, in “mirroring” itself in the world, returns to us a dimension already imbued with meaning. If, for Lacan, the mirror stage is constitutive of subjectivity, for Merleau-Ponty the world itself functions as a mirror insofar as it envelops, reflects, comprehends, and ultimately constitutes the meaning of our actions, granting significance to our very subjectivity as a relational event. The body too, understood as Gestalt, is a perceptual system embedded in this “open” circularity sustained by field dynamics. Our corporeality lives in the chiasm: we are simultaneously seeing and visible, desiring and the object of desire, active and passive; “every relation with being is simultaneously taking and a being taken” (VI, 266). Inside and outside form a kind of “membrane” that filters information like one organism within another: forms nested within forms. We are not a closed and stable system, but a processual, metastable, open, and stratified one.