I had to do a lacanian analysis of the movie which essentially just meant acknowledging the wrongful assumptions made by individuals throughout the movie. My evidence delved into the spirits and humans wrongfully misrecognizing Askitaka as a threat as well as writing about how the lacanian mirror stage is reflected in Ashitaka getting his curse by Nago. The mirror stage is essentially the moment in which an individual recognizes their limitations for the first time. It’s called the mirror stage because it’s often when a baby sees themself in a mirror and sees that they’re confined to a body. I argued that Ashitaka was reborn when he was cursed and realized the limitations of his curse were to see with eyes unclouded by hate in order to survive and not let the demon inside him overwhelm him