re-finding rather than returning to
Does "re-finding rather than returning to a narcissian paradise" mean "recreating a narcissistic heaven"?

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Again a soundtrack of a lullaby in string and bells provides a sonorous landscape that extends the processual expansiveness of the imagery, re-finding rather than returning to a narcissian paradise in which we can indulge in a transformational space of mutual gazing rather than being subjected to the cut of Lacan’s mirror stage in which we can only occupy one side of the mirror or the other.

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re-finding rather than returning to
Does "re-finding rather than returning to a narcissian paradise" mean "recreating a narcissistic heaven"?

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Again a soundtrack of a lullaby in string and bells provides a sonorous landscape that extends the processual expansiveness of the imagery, re-finding rather than returning to a narcissian paradise in which we can indulge in a transformational space of mutual gazing rather than being subjected to the cut of Lacan’s mirror stage in which we can only occupy one side of the mirror or the other.

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"Re-finding" is not a word and makes for a strange sentence. It refers to something that we used to have, then lost. Now we have found it again. To me, better words would be return to, rediscover, reclaim.
Heaven can be referred to as a paradise, but I don't think the author is talking about Heaven. I think he means a state of mind or a state of consciousness.

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it's a little difficult to know exactly what the author means, it is obvious referring to an opposite of returning, the phrase
"re-finding rather than returning to" is saying this, but what the author meant; by re-finding as opposed to returning to we have to use our imagination. I would say your interpretion  is correct, or close enough. It seems to be referring to a visual imagery within the mind.

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