PSYCHOLOGY – When you are complexed or anxious about the passage of time, being photographed can be painful. Several tools make it possible to reconcile with this self-image.
There are those who capture every moment of their life, even abusing the selfie. Others who flee from objectives like the plague, even if it means shaking up the contemporary social order. Their loved ones are surprised: what do you mean, they don’t want to be in the group photo? It would, however, make a nice souvenir… This rejection of a frozen self-image is interpreted in the light of each personal story. Were we valued by our parents? Have we been the subject of recurring comparisons with the rest of the siblings? Be that as it may, several avenues are possible to explain it… and finally succeed in agreeing to appear on the family albums.
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“We cannot access our image objectively, recalls in the preamble Elsa Godart, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author of I selfie, therefore I am. The metamorphoses of the self in the virtual age (Albin Michel). We always look at it through ourselves. The representation we have of this image is not…
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